Direct Reports

[Peace&Joy]

In AD the tab Organization tab has an area called "Direct
Reports". How do you add or delete names from this area?

 

[Jason Opdycke [MSFT]]

You populate this field by defining a Manager for a user. - You could also
script this with ADSI

 

[Jimmy Andersson]

FYI: (a bit overkill perhaps...)

The reason for this is Linked Attributes. A forward-link attribute on a
source object references a target object by its DN. The back-link attribute
on the target object is automatically calculated and populated with the DN
of the source object.
Forward-link and back-link pairs are identified by their linkID property
values. Forward-links have the linkID set to an even number (n) and the
corresponding back-link has its linkID set to n+1 which is always odd.

In your case this is happening:
You set the 'Manager' attribute to the DN of the manager, the managers
'Direct Reports' attribute is automatically calculated and populated with
the DN of the user. This is also the reason why you can't manually edit the
'Direct Reports' attribute.

Regards,
/Jimmy
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Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory
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