Active Directory Search Options grayed out when adding permissions / new member

Question

Hello,

in our domain we got the problem, if you want to search when your adding permission/members/groups over the ad or any kind of folder permission and search after user or group, you can only search after the column"name" and the rest of it is grayed out.

How can we fix it? Since i want to use atleast description for more information. The problem is on any server, so i guess it's setting or missing update?

Answer 1

Hello @LSchnuecker-7759

This an counterintuitive, but expected, behavior. First you need to search and then you can apply the filter.

Please try it.

Hope this helps with your query,

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Answer 2

in your search object types you have users, groups, other objects etc. Not all objects have a description and that is why the description field is greyed out. If you reduce the search to just User and Group objects, you should find that you can search by description