To provide a consistent manner to identify the functional area responsible for a given object in the Active Directory, and to prevent collisions between objects in different organizational units (OUs) ...

have you looked at System.DirectoryServices? I havent played with it myself, but since you can search AD with that namespace i would hope there is a way to modify it.

I'm having a problem. I need to determine the DN of an AD user but can't figure out the syntax. There are two issues: one of the OUs the user is in has a comma, and the name of the domain is kind of ...