Hi Group, we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users with the same displayname is different from day to day. Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD and GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to change the order in the GC? Thanks for your Help Frank
How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better solution than "remember which one came first". You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty much anything. "FHeising" wrote in message news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... > Hi Group, > > we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users > with the same displayname is different from day to day. > > Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD > and > GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new > one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( > > My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to > change the order in the GC? > > Thanks for your Help > Frank >
Thx for your reply, can I do this automatically? If the answer is yes - how? "andy webb" wrote: > How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of > helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better > solution than "remember which one came first". > > You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty much > anything. > > > "FHeising" wrote in message > news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... > > Hi Group, > > > > we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users > > with the same displayname is different from day to day. > > > > Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD > > and > > GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new > > one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( > > > > My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to > > change the order in the GC? > > > > Thanks for your Help > > Frank > > > > >
You will need to manually correct the display names. -- Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition www.joeware.net ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available--- http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm fheising wrote: > Thx for your reply, can I do this automatically? If the answer is yes - how? > > "andy webb" wrote: > >> How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of >> helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better >> solution than "remember which one came first". >> >> You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty much >> anything. >> >> >> "FHeising" wrote in message >> news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... >>> Hi Group, >>> >>> we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users >>> with the same displayname is different from day to day. >>> >>> Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD >>> and >>> GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new >>> one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( >>> >>> My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to >>> change the order in the GC? >>> >>> Thanks for your Help >>> Frank >>> >> >>
What? Manually? This is a bad Joke! In this case the AD contains 20.000 Users! There must be a way to modify the schema, that the displayname will bild automatically. "Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote: > You will need to manually correct the display names. > > -- > Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services > Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition > www.joeware.net > > > ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available--- > > http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm > > > > fheising wrote: > > Thx for your reply, can I do this automatically? If the answer is yes - how? > > > > "andy webb" wrote: > > > >> How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of > >> helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better > >> solution than "remember which one came first". > >> > >> You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty much > >> anything. > >> > >> > >> "FHeising" wrote in message > >> news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... > >>> Hi Group, > >>> > >>> we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users > >>> with the same displayname is different from day to day. > >>> > >>> Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD > >>> and > >>> GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new > >>> one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( > >>> > >>> My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to > >>> change the order in the GC? > >>> > >>> Thanks for your Help > >>> Frank > >>> > >> > >> >
Hi, Sure it is possible - create a script that runs thru the users and correct as desired. Leif "fheising" wrote in message news:D4587E6B-F767-4606-B9EA-CE6613779ED2@microsoft.com... > What? Manually? This is a bad Joke! In this case the AD contains 20.000 > Users! There must be a way to modify the schema, that the displayname will > bild automatically. > > "Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote: > >> You will need to manually correct the display names. >> >> -- >> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services >> Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition >> www.joeware.net >> >> >> ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available--- >> >> http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm >> >> >> >> fheising wrote: >> > Thx for your reply, can I do this automatically? If the answer is yes - >> > how? >> > >> > "andy webb" wrote: >> > >> >> How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of >> >> helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better >> >> solution than "remember which one came first". >> >> >> >> You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty >> >> much >> >> anything. >> >> >> >> >> >> "FHeising" wrote in message >> >> news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... >> >>> Hi Group, >> >>> >> >>> we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for >> >>> users >> >>> with the same displayname is different from day to day. >> >>> >> >>> Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with >> >>> AD >> >>> and >> >>> GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only >> >>> the new >> >>> one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC >> >>> works...:-( >> >>> >> >>> My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools >> >>> avalible to >> >>> change the order in the GC? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks for your Help >> >>> Frank >> >>> >> >> >> >> >>
By manually I mean there isn't a switch you can click and say do it. You will need to script this or do it by hand in ADUC or find some tool that someone else has written to do it (of which I don't know of any). The schema doesn't control the displayname. You can modify how display names are created with displaySpecifiers but that doesn't go back and change old objects, it only changes things created after the change. You have to consider that mass change of display names is not something most companies would want because that is what people see their identities as in the GAL. So if MS put out ways for this to happen wholehog accidently you can bet someone would do it accidently and someone with a large directory of a couple hundred thousand users would be screaming about it. I have seen this happen with recipient policies which WILL go back and change certain things and saw a whole fortune 15 company (over hundred thousand users) lose the ability for people to receive email for a couple of days from the outside world. -- Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition www.joeware.net ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available--- http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm fheising wrote: > What? Manually? This is a bad Joke! In this case the AD contains 20.000 > Users! There must be a way to modify the schema, that the displayname will > bild automatically. > > "Joe Richards [MVP]" wrote: > >> You will need to manually correct the display names. >> >> -- >> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services >> Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition >> www.joeware.net >> >> >> ---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available--- >> >> http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm >> >> >> >> fheising wrote: >>> Thx for your reply, can I do this automatically? If the answer is yes - how? >>> >>> "andy webb" wrote: >>> >>>> How about changing the display names so they are unique? In terms of >>>> helping your users correctly deliver mail, this is a far, far better >>>> solution than "remember which one came first". >>>> >>>> You can add a department or a middle initial, or a location, or pretty much >>>> anything. >>>> >>>> >>>> "FHeising" wrote in message >>>> news:D1B59B88-D7EA-4120-911E-2FF46BCD9A38@microsoft.com... >>>>> Hi Group, >>>>> >>>>> we have a problem with our GAL. On the Outlook-Clients the order for users >>>>> with the same displayname is different from day to day. >>>>> >>>>> Meanwhile we have identified that one GC is completly new staged with AD >>>>> and >>>>> GC-Role. Our 2 orignale GC's have the same order in the GAL - only the new >>>>> one differ from the others. As well a new creation of the GC works...:-( >>>>> >>>>> My question is: How can I correct this issue? Are there tools avalible to >>>>> change the order in the GC? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your Help >>>>> Frank >>>>> >>>>
