Add-Association Events are when the driver add an association to the entry in EDirectory that is a pointer to the entry in the Connected Application.
The "pointer" is added to the DirXML-Associations Attribute of the entry.
On A Merge#
There should not be an Add-association Events in the case of a merge.
When the engine finds a match and sets the association directly on the object in the
IDV, then triggers the merge process to reconcile any differences. This is the correct and expected behavior.
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