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07/18/2008 9:08 AM
I have addressed this issue within my Infrastructure Naming Standards by mandating that the "Display Name" must allow humans to correctly\uniquely identify a person in the organisation while the other attributes such as "User logon Name (pre Windows 2000)" should allow applications to uniquely identify a person. So the user may request that we alter the Display Name to what they're commonly known as. I've also specified that Operations in these cases should add additional smtp address to the user object. For example I have both rob.singers@ and robert.singers@, on my account, as a large number of people know me as Rob rather than Robert. Now when it comes to HR, they have Employee-ID <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675662%28VS.85%29.aspx> as a field with which they can uniquely identify a person. However that being said, looking at the Schema http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683980(VS.85).aspx <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683980(VS.85).aspx> there also appears to be a Given-Name attribute that could be used. To make some of this stuff easy we just push it into the the Notes attribute so you can reference it from the GAL. ________________________________ From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of James Masters Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2008 6:59 a.m. To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] preferredName vs. givenName All, >From what I can tell, Active Directory does not have a preferredName field of equivalent. What is recommended for accomodating the Chuck/Charles and Bob/Roberts of the world in AD who want to be found and displayed in various applications (Exchange addressing policy, GAL lookups) by their preferredName? How can they be accomdated, while also making HR happy by having givenName in the directory? Any guidance is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -James ________________________________ This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal ________________________________ ############################################################ PLEASE NOTE: The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential and subject to privilege. Any opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of the Department of Building and Housing. All technical opinions are offered on a ?no-liability? basis. This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email and delete the original and any attachment(s). Thank you. ############################################################

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