That isn't new :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 5:37 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window
I'm glad to hear from someone that used it. This is spurred by the discovery that Cisco Unity Connections 10 uses LDAP sync. Funny thing, users get married and divorced and require account name changes. If the association between Unity and AD is based on the samAccountName the association breaks - and you apparently can't just associate the old voicemail account with the new account name. You have to delete and recreate the Unity account. Something else that the sales rep and engineers didn't mention when we were considering this solution. Now looking into using an attribute that won't change and employeeNumber is an option. Powershell is a definite for initially populating the attribute for existing users. I'd still like to have something available that's already familiar with everyone else for new users. -Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 4:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window I'm guessing you probably found the same one I did. I've been running if for about 5 years now with no "known" ill effects, in case that makes you feel better. We also handle employee type that way too. I agree, a separate tab or being able to expose it on one of the existing tabs would be preferable, but lately I've started using powershell for that sort of thing. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 5:02 PM To: New NT System Admin List ([email protected]) Subject: [NTSysADM] Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property window Is there a way to add a place under say, the General or Organization tab of the user properties to enter the employeeNumber value without having to go into the Attribute Editor and modifying it there? I found an article which would have me put a vb script on the server, and then right-click on the account to set the value. I'm not real crazy about putting a vb script on my domain controller, much less one I downloaded from the net. And I'd like the option to be available on all the DCs. Anyone have any other options? Ideally I'd like to see a place on user's property page in ADUC. -Paul
