They are ascii numbers. 49 = '1' and 48 = '0' - sqljunkieshare.com/.../

Why Powershell does this, I do not know, as the schema defines it as an integer.

Thanks, indeed.

In case somebody else faces this issue: This is how you can get the string value of it:

$ModelRequest.Entries[0].Attributes['dirxml-tracesizelimit'][0].ToString()

I will point out that Packages are going to be a tad tricky to compare directly via LDAP.  When you get there, you will start asking the right questions...  But you have a way to go before you hit those problems.

You can get the package information from the DirXML-pkgGUID attribute, I do belive it was Norbert who shared this - where I do not remember:

def parse_dirxml_pkgguid(value):
    "parse a DirXML-pkgGUID value into a dict"
    DIRXML_PKG_FIELD = ["id", "package", "version", "name", "short_name"]
    pkg = dict(zip(DIRXML_PKG_FIELD, value.split(";")))
    # for some entries, the name and short_name parts are missing (deployed with older Designer versions?)
    if "name" not in pkg:
        log.debug("incomplete DirXML-pkgGUID: %s", value)
        pkg["name"] = pkg["package"]
    return pkg

That should make it reasonable easy to write code which compares data among multiple trees.

thanks! any chance you can refer me to the original post?

Sorry, I do not remember where I got it - and I have had it for a very long time.

Depending on what you want, you can choose one tree to be the "master", store the information in a dict/array, then loop through it, and see if the same information exist in the other trees.

I normally store the end result in csv as it's easy to use excel (or Numbers.app) to sort it.

In general terms you compare treeA against treeB, you can then choose to compare treeB against treeA, and so forth.