Re: Making EmployeeNumber field enterable in Active Directory User

User objects have an employeeID attribute, but it does not appear in ADUC.
There are ways you can make it appear, but it is some work.

Another idea is to use an existing field that is displayed in ADUC. For
example "Description" or "Office" on the General tab or "Department" or
"Company" on the Organization tab. Just pick a field that isn't used.

Otherwise, an article about customizing ADUC is linked here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms676902(VS.85).aspx

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"RIMikeG" <RIMikeG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
Unfortunately the point was to make it as simple as possible for the
HelpDesk - so that sounds like a lot of work.

Regards
Michael

"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" wrote:

Michael,

RIMikeG wrote:
We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so
that
we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.

Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active
Directory
Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user
they
can easily enter it.

You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.

cheers,

Florian
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