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Monday, February 2, 2009

How to know Active Directory attribute names

When dealing programmaically with active directory objects using .net code, VBScript or PowerShell, you need to set values of attribues you find in the "Active Directory Users and Computers" Snap-in (run dsa.msc). But these names are not always the same as the names used when setting attribute values in code. So how to know the attribute names?

I stumbled upon a nice msdn page that has the Mappings for the Active Directory Users and Computers Snap-in. It has has links to object type specific UI labels to attribute names.
For example, the User Object User Interface Mapping page shows that the Office UI label maps to physicalDeliveryOfficeName. How could you guess it?