Changes made to the Directory Synchronization job properties are not being saved. (4328504)

Changes made to the Directory Synchronization job properties are not being saved. OUs are selected/deselected from the directory synchronization job properties, but when the synchronization job properties are subsequently viewed, all OUs are selected.

The source domain contains 20+ OUs directly under the Root. Changes are saved, and are viewable in the synchronization properties windows, when any OUs between 1 and 20 are selected/deselected. When the 21st, or higher, OU is selected and the Properties windows saved by clicking OK, subsequent viewing of the synchronization properties windows shows all OUs selected.

For example: In this scenario the source domain has 100 OUs under the root, and will be referred to as OUs 1 through 100 (with OU 1 being the closest to the root, and OU 100 being the furthest from the root). If you select any OUs between 1 and 20 to be included in the synchronization scope and click Ok, the changes will be saved and opening the synchronization properties will show the selected OUs. If you select any OUs between 21 and 100, click OK, and open the synchronization properties all OUs will be selected. This same behavior will occur if any OUs between 1 and 20, and 21 and 100, are selected, saved and the synchronization properties re-opened.

To work around this issue, modify the synchronization job and deselect OUs as required. Click OK to save the changes. The changes will be properly written to the ADAM database.

View the synchronization properties only to change/update settings. Opening the synchronization properties to verify settings will overwrite the changes in ADAM and will show all OUs as selected, and the source scope will need to be re-configured.

WORKAROUND

It has been found that deselecting each OU one at a time (each sub-ou/parent OU one at a time) then clicking OK after deselecting only 1 OU, then going back into properties of the synchronization job, then the changes were saved.