Active Directory properties (LDAP user attributes)

As I promised in my previous post: howto retreive logged on users email from AD
Below is a list of all the Active Directory properties (LDAP user attributes)

-CN
Common Name CN=Guy Thomas. Actually, this LDAP attribute is made up from givenName joined to SN.

-description
What you see in Active Directory Users and Computers. Not to be confused with displayName on the Users property sheet.

-displayName
displayName = Guy Thomas

-DN
also distinguishedName DN is simply the most important LDAP attribute.

-givenName
Firstname also called Christian name

-homeDrive
Home Folder

-name
name = Guy Thomas. same as CN.

-objectCategory
Defines the Active Directory Schema category. For example, objectClass = Person

-objectClass
objectClass = User. Also used for
Computer, organizationalUnit, even container. Important top level container.

-physicalDeliveryOfficeName
Office! on the user's General property sheet

-profilePath
Roamingprofilepath:connect

-sAMAccountName
sAMAccountName=guyt.OldNT4.0logon
name,must be unique in the domain. Can be confused with CN.

-SN
SN = Thomas. This would be referred to as
last name or surname.

-userAccountControl
Used to disable an account. A value of 514 disables the account, while 512 makes the account ready for logon.

-userPrincipalName
userPrincipalName = guyt@CP.com Often abbreviated to UPN, and looks like an email address.

-c
Country or Region

-company
Company or organization name

-department
Useful category to fill in and use for filtering

-homephone
Home Phone number, (Lots more phone LDAPs)

-l
(Lower case L) L = Location. City ( Maybe Office


-location
Important, particularly for printers.

-manager
Boss, manager

-mobile
Mobile Phone number

-ObjectClass
Usually, User, or Computer

-OU
Organizational unit

-postalCode
Zip or postal code

-st
State, Province or County

-streetAddress
First line of address

-telephoneNumber
Office Phone


Exchange Specific LDAP attributes
-mail
An easy, but important attribute. A simple SMTP address is all that is required

-mailNickname
Normally this is the same value as the sAMAccountName, but could be different if you wished. Needed for mail enabled contacts.

-mDBUseDefaults
Another straightforward field, just the
value to:True

-msExchHomeServerName
Exchange needs to know which server to deliver the mail.

-proxyAddresses
As the name 'proxy' suggests, it is possible for one recipient to have more than one email address. Note the plural spelling of proxyAddresses.

-targetAddress
SMTP:@ email address. Note that SMTP is case sensitive. All capitals means the default address.