This was a bug in the schema in 2000. The OID is still the same, which is I think what the Outlook Addres Book uses but the LDAP names have changed.


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 April 2006 23:50
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] How do you add assistant information to an AD user account?

In honor of today being Administrative Professionals day, I have an related Active Directory/Exchange question.
 
In the old Exchange 5.5 days, the GUI had a place to type in information for a particular mailbox's assistant and assistant phone number.  This information was then displayed in the Outlook Address Book next to the appropriate assistant fields.  Once we had the Active Directory Connector put in, we were able to update the msExchAssistantName and telephoneAssistant AD attributes which in turn updated the Outlook Address Book as well.  This worked well at the time.
 
Ever since we fully migrated to Exchange 2003 this no longer appears to work.  The data is still in the proper attributes, but it is not displayed in the Outlook Address Book.  After some investigation with ADSIEdit I discovered the assistant and secretary attributes under the covers.  However, these are in Distinguished Name format which means they expect the whole CN=blah, OU=blah syntax.  Although I could type this in for each of our users needing this information, it seemed like a pain so I started looking for a way to do it with the Exchange GUI tools.  No such luck.
 
Does anyone know of a way to add assistant information to an AD user account without typing the CN information?  I must be missing something basic.  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
 
jasonjordan MCSE, MCP+I, MCP
Manager
Security, Audit, and Recovery Team
Data Center Services
Emerson Process Management, LLLP
(512) 832-3191
 


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