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That is strange. Could you please try to run these 2 commands?

Get-ADDBAccount -All -DBPath 'D:\ntds.dit' -BootKey '13d20976d63ea5e836036ec8bc68d6eb'
Get-ADDBAccount -All -DBPath 'D:\ntds.dit' -BootKey $key.Trim()

How exactly did you populate the $key variable?

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@Foneman38 Could you please also check that $key.GetType().Name really is String? What version of PowerShell do you have?

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I have done a couple of more tests and it turned out that my code did not work if the String was encapsulated in a PSObject.

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Hi @Foneman38 , could you please test the latest release? Thanks.

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Version Name Type Repository Description

2.21.2 DSInternals Module PSGallery The DSInternals PowerShell Module

This is what I get with
Get-ADDBAccount -All -DBPath 'D:\ntds.dit' -BootKey '13d20976d63ea5e836036ec8bc68d6eb'
Get-ADDBAccount -All -DBPath 'D:\ntds.dit' -BootKey $key.Trim()

**Get-ADDBAccount : Secondary index is corrupt. The database must be defragmented or the affected index must be deleted.
If the corrupt index is over Unicode text, a likely cause is a sort-order change.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ADDBAccount -All -DBPath "D:\Stevens\ntds\ntds.dit" -BootKey $key ...
+     + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (:) [Get-ADDBAccount], EsentSecondaryIndexCorruptedException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DBContextError,DSInternals.PowerShell.Commands.GetADDBAccountCommand**

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@Foneman38 This is expected behavior. Have you tried to defragment the DB using esentutl.exe, as the message says? The PS module is using native Windows ESE library to read the DB and this library has issues with backwards compatibility.

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