Re: what value to specify as "Unique X.500 Object ID" for my custom attribute

thanks Joe!

i have emailed to Microsoft for the prefix. its just i will need to wait for
2 weeks before i get it. i was hoping to get it done quicker because the
developers on my end are waiting on me to add those custom attributes before
they can proceed with using them in their work.

i think for now, i will just ask them to use the pre-defined "custom
attributes" instead untill we get the prefix from MS and i add our own
custom attributes in our AD.

thanks for the help!

akhlaq.


"Joe Kaplan" <joseph.e.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Using random OIDs is a bad practice and should not be done, except for
possibly in an isolated ADAM instance for testing. For any OIDs that will
be used in production, you should register them.

Microsoft provides a service where they will give you an OID prefix that
you can use. You append your values to that and manage the usage
internally. The site is here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/certification/ad-registration.asp

You might also consider picking up Joe Richard's book (Active Directory
3rd Edition). He has good schema stuff in there. Mine has some useful
info (such as this) for designing schema, especially for those coming from
a database background, but the audience is more for developers/application
architects.

Joe K.

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"Akhlaq Khan" <sww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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hi,
we are running windows server 2003 domain environemnt in our office. we
are developing an application for our local use which uses AD as its main
source of user information. for this purpose, we need to add some custom
attributes in the AD like:

1. Employee ID
2. Date of Birth
3. Date of Joining
..etc.

i read this article about how to do it:
http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=170286&seqNum=3&rl=1

the article mentioned that "Object Identifiers An OID is not randomly
generated; standards organizations such as the International
Telecommunications Union issue these identifiers to ensure that they are
not duplicated. To obtain a unique OID for a class or attribute that you
want to create, you should contact one of these standards organizations."

In the nex steps it show adding a custom attribute with OID
"1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.142".

My question is, how do i obtain a unique OID for my attributes? whom do i
contact? do i have to pay for it? or can i just go on adding my
attributes with self made OIDs like ...
1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.142
1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.143
1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.144
1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.145

...etc. as shown in the article?

Please help! i am really confused!

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Akhlaq.








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