[X-POST] Person and User.

[AM]

Hi all,

is there anyone who can kindly tell me how the object/category specified in the subject play the
role in the big picture of Active Directory?

I need to access the attribute userPrincipalName and someone told me to refer to the object (?-I
hope to call it with the right name) USER instead of PERSON.

Browsing the AD through an LDAP browser the "user" has both the objectclass User and Person so I can
not see any difference between them and I can not understand why to use the first instead of the
second. Maybe I'm missing something.

I would be interested in some drawings that explains at which level those "object" are placed and
which is the "role" of each one.

Many thanks in advance.

Alessandro

 

[Guest]

AM,

The full listing for the object model can be found at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680938.aspx

Navigate to: AD Schema | Classes | All Classes
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[David Shen]

To Alessandro,

You can use Sysinternals tool ADExplorer to view userPrincipalName very
easily.You may download it with www.sysinternals.com