This thread has gotten my interest. We had IBM in here a couple of years ago talking about their LDAP and that Active Directory was inferior because of it's implementation of the InetOrgUser class instead of InetOrgPerson. We stopped them when we mentioned our intention of going with .NET (was RC2 at the time) and that their implementation of InetOrgPerson appeared to be as compliant as anyone else's implementation.
However, I've heard very little about InetOrgPerson since then. In fact, we had a training in-house late last year to train some of our staff and he stated that he's never heard of anyone using or wanting to use InetOrgPerson. I told him that I've been recommending that we need to implement AD using InetOrgPerson instead of User. My concern is compatibility with other organizations (we will be in acquisition mode in a year or so) as well as compatibility with enterprise LDAP directories (we're in need of something that will cover multiple platforms). I would appreciate it if you could comment, offline if you want, as to why you are seeking to migrate to InetOrgPerson or whether you chose InetOrgPerson at the outset for your implementation. I'm curious about the degree of adoption. I'm running in to a great deal of resistance regarding InetOrgPerson here and am concerned that we would end up looking at a migration very shortly after our migration. Thanks, Mike > I have chased Ms on this for an official KB article without success. I > have done this in production without any hassles though on exactly the > same scenario you described: third party kit that like inetorgPerson > better than the user class. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent > Westmoreland > Sent: 21 April 2004 02:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class > > Using pure ldap logic, One would assume that is the case. I guess I > was hoping someone had stumbled across a kb article so that once this > is done in production, I have an endorsed Microsoft methodology to take > to management. > > > On Apr 21, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner wrote: > > > Hello Brent, > > > > this is very easy to accomblish: you just need to add the > inetOrgPerson > > class to the objectClass attribute of the user using adsiedit or a > > script. > > > > Ulf > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent > > Westmoreland > > Sent: Dienstag, 20. April 2004 21:18 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [ActiveDir] User to InetOrgPerson Class > > > > Does anyone know of a Microsoft endorsed way to change a win2k3 user > > object > > to an InetOrgPerson object without having to export the information > and > > reimport it? There is a potential that some of our clients will need > > to > > interact with active directory from an alternate client. This change > > would > > be more easily supported if the user were defined as an InetOrgPerson. > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > > List archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
