Active Directory GUI Specifiers

[Gene Rosenacker]

I have a need to get a new Context Menu added to the User
Template when creating a new user, and applying it to my
existing 5,000 users. I have added the Schema
Attribute "Employee-ID" to the Schema Class "user". What
I need is if anyone knows the easiest way to have the GUI
Interface for creating new users to include, say on the
Organization Tab in User Properties, an Employee ID field
which can be populated with the necessary 6-8 digit code.

Any takers?

 

[Kevin Sullivan]

this is really dificult, but not impossible, to do on the Organization Tab
of the User Porperties. You would need to essentially modify the GUI and
that would take some C++ programing I believe. There is an easier solution
that can be done without anything special.

you can modify 'display specifiers' that are associated with objects of the
user class and then anytime you 'right-click' on the user object you can
access the additional property. Usually what you would do is write a script
to access this data (Employee-ID) and when you access the new menu item it
will launch the script that will call the new property. You can do this with
ADSIEdit, a tool from the support tools of you W2k CD...

There are some good MS docs on doing this thing. Their example show how to
add Social Security Number and Salary if I remember correctly.

kevin

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

Step-by-Step Guide to Using Active Directory Schema and Display Specifiers:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/adschemasteps.asp

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[Gene Rosenacker]

Thanks for the ideas. I've used the document previously,
but with a lack of VB Scripting knowledge, I'm unable to
determine how to swap out the Salary and Salary Level
snippets with the Employee ID one. Anyone have an example
of modifying the Addmenu.vbs for just the Employee ID
option?

 

[Jeff Jones [MSFT]]

Here are the docs for extending the property pages.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rty_pages_for_use_with_display_specifiers.asp
Here are the docs for extending the context menus:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ext_menus_for_use_with_display_specifiers.asp

There is a sample in the Platform SDK that extends the user creation wizard,
and the property pages to show the EmployeeID field. All you should have to
do is compile this example and deploy it.