AD was originally designed (if you can call it that) to be pretty well abstracted. The notion of a user ID was replaced by creating an attribute to all fields that said whether or not it could authenticate. Two fields have that attribute set to true. One is the UPN and the other is the down level (NT-4) ID, which only gets populated if you do an upgrade.
You cannot set other fields to true (can authenticate). First, there is no UI to do it with, and second, even if there were it would kill performance due to the horrendous amount of extra indexing that it would generate. So you are left with the UPN and the down-level ID. In theory, you could pull any valid NT 4 user names (up to 16 characters as I recall, but no special characters - only alpha numerics). So the answer is "no." Both of the formats that you want are only acceptable in the UPN field, as neither will work in the down level field. -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Sanity check - instant messaging Hi all. I just wanted to see if I am still thinking straight. Here is a scenario with IM: Company FQDN - widgets.com. All mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Active Directory domain name however is corp.widgets.com Is there a way to configure instant messaging so that it would accept logons in both formats: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AND [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Here is where I am having problem: I can only create the SRV RVP record in the AD for im.corp.widgets.com and IM only accepts logons for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I could create the SRV RVP record on the external BIND servers that are responsible for widgets.com. Any ideas? Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
