RE: [ActiveDir] Attribute Documentation

[Tony Murray]

I know Joe R raised this issue a while back.  From what I remember his suggestion to Microsoft was to maintain a database to provide more detail on the AD schema.  I'm not sure how far this got, but I suspect Joe will have some input.   A number of the attributes you show below are maintained by RUS.  There are some helpful KB articles which cover the attributes touched by RUS in some detail:   Tasks performed by the Exchange Recipient Update Service http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253770   XADM: Requirements for Disabling the Recipient Update Service http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296479   Tony   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas M. Long Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2005 6:22 a.m. 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 This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal at Gen-i