Just looking further in to this, it seems telephoneAssistant and secretary are the fields that appear in outlook - both of which are free text input.
It begs the question of what the DN field of 'assistant' actually does. Surely if it is expecting a distinguished name, it must be used for something, somewhere? Anyone know what? On 13/07/06, AdamT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nevermind - figured it out myself after finding an account with "N/A" in the field- the correct field is called 'telephoneAssistant', and is a freetext input, rather than a DN. On 13/07/06, AdamT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear font of all knowledge, > > I remeber reading a thread a while back about changing the value of > the 'assistant' field, using ADSIEdit. > > Somebody's asked me to do this today, so I've given it a go, and > copied/pasted the DN from one user to the other's 'assistant' field - > but the change doesn't appear to be showing in people's Outlook > clients. I've checked on a freshly installed Outlook client, just to > be sure there's no cached data, and looking at the user's GAL > properties still shows the assistant field as blank. > > Am I missing something here? Is that not the same assistant field > that Exchange 2K/2K3 would be looking at? Is there something else I > need to do to enable usage of this field? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > AdamT > "If it truly were the thought that counted, more women would be pregnant" - anon >
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