Error: "Input string was not in a correct format" (4341292)

When attempting to synchronize a change from Identity Manager to a target Active Roles group that has a name in curly braces such as CN=MyGroup {Test} the following error is displayed in the job service logs:

WORKAROUND

1. Rename the group within the target system by removing the curly braces and synchronize the change using the synchronization editor

2. Set the following logging parameters within the global.config to Info and save the change

<logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="logfile"/>
<logger name="*" level="Info" writeTo="eventLog"/>

STATUS

This will be fixed in a future release of the product. If you require this immediately corrected, please contact Support for a hotfix referencing the defect ID 28993.

Please note that a hotfix is only available for versions 7.1 and above.