RE: [ActiveDir] Attribute Documentation

[joe]

Most of those are Exchange related and Exchange docs are pretty poor. Your best best is to enter each into a google search and start chasing the support docs. You will often find little bits of info spread across multiple docs. Some you set, some are set by the RUS. Lots of different factors going on.   Of the two that aren't Exchange   pwdLastSet is owned/set by the OS. You can only set two values for it, 0 and -1. 0 means the account is flagged to change password on next logon, -1 clears that flag.   instancetype has info about how the object is instantiated. You almost never have to do anything with this unless you are working with ADAM and creating a new NC.      joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Long Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:22 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Attribute Documentation Is there any good documentation on AD attributes. The stuff at msdn.microsoft.com seems pretty useless to me (or maybe I just don’t have a clue what they are specifying). I need to know if attributes need to be specified, or if they are automatically populated (and if so, how or what criteria are used), or don’t need to be present when creating accounts. Here are the ones I am concerned with at this time, but it sure would be nice to find a good resource to look this stuff up in.       mail pwdLastSet instanceType showInAddressBook showInAddressBook homeMTA homeMDB mailNickname mDBUseDefaults legacyExchangeDN textEncodedORAddress msExchHomeServerName msExchUserAccountControl     Thanks