Graham, AD does default to First Name Sur Name on new account creation. The following KB Article explains how to change that: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=250455
R/Bill -----Original Message----- From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD replication from 5.5 using ADC hopefully once again i am not charged with going too O/T with this one, but was looking to get a bit of further information on the potential impact of a replication from an exchange 5.5 server to a win2k AD it seems there is potential for the change of attributes already in the AD if there is different data in the 5.5 directory. the most obvious of these seems to be the "display name" given its prevalence in most directories, and likelihood (this is true in this specfic case) of different convention being used between the directories; in 5.5 we have surname ^ firstname , whilst on AD we have the other way round ! i have reviewed the ADC documentation seems there are two ways we can acheive some sort of control - i. default adc policy where we can set globally certain attribute data not to be replicated ii. 'connection agreement' policy which is manipulated using ADSI edit the latter seems preferable given scope for different CA configuration could anyone possibly explain what this actually does - the ADC doc's reference quotes "Do not overwrite RDN with the Exchange 5.5 Alias attribute." don't know if this is a typo but the alias in a 5.5 directory does not look to relate to the display name as the technote seems to suggest does this ADC configuraton value relate ONLY to the replication of the "display name" ?? am i also right to say that this MSEXCHSERVER1FLAGS value controls the behaviour when replicating to Windows (and by implication from Exchange 5.5 ) ?? and that the msexchserver2flags value controls the behaviour the other way round ? if i am too O/T my apologies - GT 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/
