diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php b/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
index d89029abf1795bcfc1d777a831952212dca06304..0d51fc511437de05e4d5ee2de65ac49d953b410b 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/lib/access.php
@@ -1167,6 +1167,18 @@ class Access extends LDAPUtility implements user\IUserTools {
 		return $this->combineFilterWithOr($filter);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * returns the filter used for counting users
+	 */
+	public function getFilterForUserCount() {
+		$filter = $this->combineFilterWithAnd(array(
+			$this->connection->ldapUserFilter,
+			$this->connection->ldapUserDisplayName . '=*'
+		));
+
+		return $filter;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @param string $name
 	 * @param string $password
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/lib/wizard.php b/apps/user_ldap/lib/wizard.php
index c5db4c66cc0108f61d519fe738bc72fb51dd385e..f373fabb69c5f8214d818de30a66aa773f57e59d 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/lib/wizard.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/lib/wizard.php
@@ -121,10 +121,7 @@ class Wizard extends LDAPUtility {
 	 */
 	public function countUsers() {
 		$this->detectUserDisplayNameAttribute();
-		$filter = $this->access->combineFilterWithAnd(array(
-			$this->configuration->ldapUserFilter,
-			$this->configuration->ldapUserDisplayName . '=*'
-		));
+		$filter = $this->access->getFilterForUserCount();
 
 		$usersTotal = $this->countEntries($filter, 'users');
 		$usersTotal = ($usersTotal !== false) ? $usersTotal : 0;
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/tests/user_ldap.php b/apps/user_ldap/tests/user_ldap.php
index c89edc33fa94c04e4eaef51d396796139a1cefa3..d975fd56c51197d5e186da4e3e8721f2e36ad5cc 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/tests/user_ldap.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/tests/user_ldap.php
@@ -550,23 +550,9 @@ class Test_User_Ldap_Direct extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
 	public function testCountUsers() {
 		$access = $this->getAccessMock();
 
-		$access->connection->expects($this->once())
-			   ->method('__get')
-			   ->will($this->returnCallback(function($name) {
-					if($name === 'ldapLoginFilter') {
-						return 'uid=%uid';
-					}
-					return null;
-			   }));
-
 		$access->expects($this->once())
 			   ->method('countUsers')
-			   ->will($this->returnCallback(function($filter, $a, $b, $c) {
-				   if($filter !== 'uid=*') {
-					   return false;
-				   }
-				   return 5;
-			   }));
+			   ->will($this->returnValue(5));
 
 		$backend = new UserLDAP($access);
 
@@ -577,23 +563,9 @@ class Test_User_Ldap_Direct extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
 	public function testCountUsersFailing() {
 		$access = $this->getAccessMock();
 
-		$access->connection->expects($this->once())
-			   ->method('__get')
-			   ->will($this->returnCallback(function($name) {
-					if($name === 'ldapLoginFilter') {
-						return 'invalidFilter';
-					}
-					return null;
-			   }));
-
 		$access->expects($this->once())
 			   ->method('countUsers')
-			   ->will($this->returnCallback(function($filter, $a, $b, $c) {
-				   if($filter !== 'uid=*') {
-					   return false;
-				   }
-				   return 5;
-			   }));
+			   ->will($this->returnValue(false));
 
 		$backend = new UserLDAP($access);
 
diff --git a/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php b/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
index 6e244311d4a81cb331c9685c98bfaf247e0865c8..c2f87ebeb22569397d5ab2b17eaa180b8f89f5a6 100644
--- a/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
+++ b/apps/user_ldap/user_ldap.php
@@ -290,8 +290,7 @@ class USER_LDAP extends BackendUtility implements \OCP\UserInterface {
 	 * @return int|bool
 	 */
 	public function countUsers() {
-		$filter = \OCP\Util::mb_str_replace(
-			'%uid', '*', $this->access->connection->ldapLoginFilter, 'UTF-8');
+		$filter = $this->access->getFilterForUserCount();
 		$entries = $this->access->countUsers($filter);
 		return $entries;
 	}