Active Directory Search Field Length

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this is how I do it. perhaps this will help you out.

How to Setup Authentication Groups with LDAP/AD

In this example I’ll be using the following: AD domain = AD-DOMAIN.local access group = Openfire Access Group roster groups = _IM Group1, _IM Group2 (*note - I’ll be using _IM as part of a wildcard search, so all my groups start with _IM for that reason) First create your security groups: Create a Domain Local Security Group. In our example call it Openfire Access Group. In this example, I’ve placed the group in the user container. Create regular security groups (usually Global). In t…

you can edit the field directly in the DB or from within the system properties page.

also, to get around the AD paging limit, add this to your system properties
ldap.pagedResultsSize with a value of 1000