2.2.3.2.7 Category Creation Message

This message creates a CategoryRegistration object in Active Directory.

The CategoryRegistration objects are contained in the AppCategories container of the Default Domain Policy object in Active Directory.

This message MUST be an LDAP AddRequest message, as specified in [RFC2251]. The message MUST have the fields shown in the following table.

Parameter	Value
entry	MUST be a DN of the form CN=<CategoryId>,CN=AppCategories,CN=Default Domain Policy,CN=System, <Domain NC> and <CategoryId> is a GUID string, as defined in [RFC4122] section 3.
attributes	MUST specify the attributes objectClass and categoryId in an attributeList, as specified in [RFC2251].

The attributes member is itself a sequence of attribute name and value pairs. The following table specifies these pairs and their meanings.

Attribute name	Value	Meaning
objectClass	MUST be the directory string value categoryRegistration.	The name of the Active Directory object class type to create through this message.
categoryId	This field MUST be the GUID representation of the CategoryId specified in the entry.	The category being created.