Attributes for AD Users : postOfficeBox
The Active Directory attribute postOfficeBox can contain the post office box number for the user. This field isn't used directly from the Active Directory system, it is a pure info attribute without technical meaning.
postOfficeBox
| LDAP name | postOfficeBox |
| Data type | String (max 64) |
| Multivalue (Array) | Yes |
| System Flags | 0x10 |
| Search Flags | 0x10 |
| In Global Catalog? | No |
| Attribute ID | 2.5.4.18 |
| AD DB attribute name | Post-Office-Box |
| ADSI datatype | 3 - String(Unicode) |
| LDAP syntax | 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 - Directory String |
| Used in ... | > W2K |
| Schema Info | Microsoft - MSDN |
Strange: In the admin tool "AD Users and Computers" you can edit the postal office box number for a user only as a single value, whereas the AD schema defines it as a multivalue array.