Custom AD attribute - [WP]

I would like to add a new AD Custom Attribute called "Hiring Manager".

Can I use an exisitng one if available? I have exchange in my envoirenment
and notice it has quite a few custom attributes? can I use those .... but
all of my users dont have mailboxes.....

How can I go about creating a new or assigning a new attribute for Hiring
Manager?

Advise Please.

Tnx

Go to the Exchange Advanced tab in ADUC and click on custom attributes. The
first and last two or three (I believe) are used if you run an upgrade (Or
so I have been told). I would start at 4 and stop at 12 but these are all
available to you.

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Paul Bergson
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Think carefully about whether you want to use a string-based attribute for
this type of information though. In many cases, it is more useful to store
this type of data in a DN-syntax attribute with an appropriate multivalued
backlink attribute as well. That makes it easier to follow users around as
they change names and locations in the directory.

The downside of such an attribute is that if the object pointing to the
original hiring manager is deleted, in a linked attribute the reference to
that object would also be deleted. As such, you might run the risk of
losing who the original hiring manager was during deprovisioning.

It depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

I also have a bias against using the Exchange extension attributes as I
think it is better to create your own schema with a name that has some
semantic meaning. The downside is that you have to extend the schema which
some people fear, but it actually doesn't take any additional space until
the attribute is populated.

Creating UI to manage schema extensions is always a bit of a pain to deal
with, although ADUC in 2K8 server includes a tab that shows the ADSI Edit
view of things. :) It is one solution.

Joe K.

Thank you fot your response.

I will consider your input.