Attributes for Active Directory Contacts
In this section of the SelfADSI Scripting tutorial the attributes of an Active Directory Services contact object will be described. There are quite a lot of attributes defined for AD contacts, all these can be read and manipulated over LDAP and therefore with ADSI also. Interesting links for this topic:
When you start dealing with attributes, it can be a bit confusing that in the MSDN documentation there is always two kinds of AD contact attribute names: the internal AD database label and the official LDAP label. Unfortunately, sometimes there is no intuitive reference to the meaning of the attribute - or both names are very different from each other.
Attributes in the administrational GUI tools
From this point, you can jump to the enumeration of the AD contact attributes in the regarding administrational GUI tools:
| Windows 2008 AD Users and Computers |
Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 AD Users and Computers |
Exchange 2003 AD Users and Computers |
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Alphabetical list of the contact attributes
| adminDescription | adminDisplayName | ADsPath | authOrig |
| authOrigBL | autoReplyMessage | c (Country) | canonicalName |
| cn | co (Country) | comment | company |
| countryCode | createTimeStamp | delivContLength | department |
| descritpion | directReports | displayName | displayNamePrintable |
| distinguishedName | division | dLMemRejectPerms | dLMemRejectPermsBL |
| dLMemSubmitPerms | dLMemSubmitPermsBL | employeeID | employeeNumber |
| employeeType | extensionAttribute 1-15 | extensionData | facsimileTelephoneNumber |
| givenName | homePhone | info | initials |
| ipPhone | isDeleted | isRecycled | l (Location) |
| lastKnownParent | legacyExchangeDN | mailNickname | |
| manager | mAPIRecipient | member | memberOf |
| mobile | modifyTimeStamp | msExchHideFromAddressLists | msExchPoliciesExcluded |
| msExchRequireAuthToSendTo | name | Name (ADSI Property) | nTSecurityDescriptor |
| objectCategory | objectClass | otherFacsimileTelephoneNumber | objectGUID |
| otherHomePhone | otherIpPhone | otherMobile | otherPager |
| otherTelephone | pager | Parent | physicalDeliveryOfficeName |
| postalCode | postOfficeBox | proxyAddresses | seeAlso |
| sn (Surname) | st (State) | streetAddress | targetAddress |
| telephoneNumber | textEncodedORAddress | title | unauthOrig |
| unauthOrigBL | url | uSNChanged | uSNCreated |
| whenChanged | whenCreated | wWWHomePage |