Fall onto its back and giggle loudly? From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CN format question
IIRC, we had commas in our names too after our migration up from Winnt4 to Windows 2000. Because of some of the display issues (and because we only had a small number of staff on NT-based platforms at the time), we renamed everything to take out the commas and standardize. Otherwise, our cns would look about the same as yours, with my last name then first, but we also have middle initials. If I understand correctly, the cn is just reflecting the name on the object. You don't even really have to have a first/last name combo-it could be "elmo", if that was the name of the object. What would the app do then? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CN format question Thanks Bonnie, that was my feeling also. I too feel it is an app issue, but wanted to get some opinions since I am fuzzy on this. The issue isn't the \, they are choking on my lastname then firstname. They are looking for FirstName first. I would be shocked that they cannot accommodate my way. Can't imagine my way is 'wrong'. It was just a choice someone made here before my time. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CN format question The part you've shown us looks normal to me for Microsoft AD. The \ is there to escape the comma that follows. Maybe their app can't deal with that? http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=101405&seqNum=7 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 10:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CN format question Having an issue with a vendor with some LDAP lookups. I certainly saw this years ago, but never looked into it. Our CN's are backwards from how most people do it I think. Is there anything wrong with it being this way? Why is that \ there? CN=Kennedy\, Jim,OU=(Redacted list of OU/DC's) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
