Applies To:
GroupID 8, 9 and 10 - Synchronize
Business Case:
I want to use GroupID Synchronize to sync the users' telephone numbers to Active Directory’s telephoneNumber attribute. But on the Select Destination Fields page of the synchronization job wizard, I cannot locate the telephoneNumber attribute. Do you have a user-friendly name for the attribute on this page?
Solution:
GroupID Synchronize detects the Active Directory schema. On the Select Destination page of the Synchronize job wizard, click the Advanced button to view a list of Active Directory attributes with their user-friendly display names.
The Settings tab displays the connections settings in key-value pairs. The Key column displays the setting name and the Value column shows its current value. Double-click a value to modify it.
Schema settings allow you to modify the user-friendly display names and actual attribute names coming from the selected source or destination provider. You can also save your schema settings to an XML file, which you can use to import the schema for providers in other jobs that you define. See How-To: Export the Display names of AD attributes used in GroupID Synchronize.
Once you are aware of the attributes present in Synchronize, you will be able to find an attribute's user-friendly name in the Advanced Connection Properties dialog box. In our case, the telephoneNumber attribute is displayed as Office Phone in the All Fields list.
Some examples of attributes with a different display name are as follows:
| Display Name | Field Name |
| City | l |
| Common Name (CN) | cn |
| Country | co |
| Country Abbreviation | c |
| Country Code | countryCode |
| E-mail addresses | proxyAddresses |
| First Name | givenName |
| Last Name | sn |
| Other Home Phone | otherHomePhone |
| Other IP Phone | otherIpPhone |
| Other Mobile Phone | otherMobile |
| Other Office Phone | otherTelephone |
| Other Pager | otherPager |
| Other Web Page | url |
| P.O.Box | postOfficeBox |
| Sam Account Name | sAMAccountName |
| State | st |
| Web Page | wWWHomePage |
| Zip/PostalCode | postalCode |
| Custom Attribute n | extensionAttributen |
(For Custom Attribute n and extensionAttribute n, n is any number.)
Related Article:
How-To: Export the Display names of AD attributes used in GroupID Synchronize