Overview#

The MMC General Tab for Microsoft Active Directory

The "naming" attribute within Microsoft Active Directory is the CN attribute.

If we have a user that shows in the MMC as "Jim Willeke", then his DN is:

dn: CN=Jim Willeke,CN=Users,DC=mad,DC=willeke,DC=com

And his CN is:

cn: Jim Willeke

The user would look like this in the MMC

General Tab

LDAP Names#

These are the LDAP Attribute Names that Relate to the MMC Page:

General Tab

In addition, Microsoft Active Directory has some "pseudo" attributes that are significant to the MMC General Page.

• name -" LDAP attribute "name" is always the same value as the "naming" value which in the case of a USER entry is the value of the CN. (name: jim)
• distinguishedName - This is the DN of the entry. (distinguishedName: CN=jim,CN=Users,DC=mad,DC=willeke,DC=com)

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• ADUC
• MAD Naming Attributes
• Microsoft Active Directory Attributes
• Microsoft Management Console