Custom Attribute Names in Provisioning with AD

  • 7011065
  • 02-Dec-2011
  • 19-Oct-2012

Resolution

When custom attributes are added to the Active Directory configuration for provisioning, the CN schema object name of the AD attribute must be used in the Provisioning Manager (PM) keywords.txt file.  This may not match the LDAP display name shown in the AD user interface and the ADSI editor.  

For example, as shown in the chart below, the display name (used in the AD UI) for Extension Attribute 1 is extensionAttribute1 while the CN is ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-1.The entry for this attribute in the keywords.txt file must specify ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-1, not extensionAttribute1.

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The entries for the extension attributes in the keywords.txt file should look something like this:

extensionAttribute1          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-1    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute2          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-2    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute3          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-3    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute4          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-4    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute5          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-5    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute6          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-6    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute7          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-7    -1         1,2,26                      None
extensionAttribute8          ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-8    -1         1,2,26                      None

The Microsoft website contains a good reference document showing the CN (and other attributes) of the available extension attributes.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms980473%28v=exchg.65%29.aspx