Making EmployeeNumber field enterable in Active Directory Users

Hi,
We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so that
we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.

Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active Directory
Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user they
can easily enter it.

Is there a way to do this ?

Regards
Michael Green

Florian
Sat Sep 06 01:21:03 PDT 2008

Michael,

RIMikeG wrote:
> We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so that
> we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
>
> Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active Directory
> Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user they
> can easily enter it.

You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.

cheers,

Florian
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RIMikeG
Sat Sep 06 01:35:01 PDT 2008

Hi,
Unfortunately the point was to make it as simple as possible for the
HelpDesk - so that sounds like a lot of work.

Regards
Michael

"Florian Frommherz [MVP]" wrote:

> Michael,
>
> RIMikeG wrote:
> > We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so that
> > we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
> >
> > Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active Directory
> > Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user they
> > can easily enter it.
>
> You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
> thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
> custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.
>
> cheers,
>
> Florian
> --
> Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
> eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
> blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
> Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste
>

michael
Sat Sep 06 04:15:21 PDT 2008

Florian Frommherz [MVP] wrote:
>
> RIMikeG wrote:
>> We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User
>> so that we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
>>
>> Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active
>> Directory Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create
>> the new user they can easily enter it.
>
> You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
> thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
> custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.

For a simple input field reachable from the user entry context menu in
ADUC this small VBScript-based approach is sufficient:

http://redmondmag.com/columns/print.asp?EditorialsID=1062

Another possible approach is to use a LDAP client. A customer of me is
using my web2ldap for this. Being the author I'm biased. There are other
decent LDAP clients capable of editing user entries.

Ciao, Michael.

Richard
Sat Sep 06 07:39:41 PDT 2008

User objects have an employeeID attribute, but it does not appear in ADUC.
There are ways you can make it appear, but it is some work.

Another idea is to use an existing field that is displayed in ADUC. For
example "Description" or "Office" on the General tab or "Department" or
"Company" on the Organization tab. Just pick a field that isn't used.

Otherwise, an article about customizing ADUC is linked here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms676902(VS.85).aspx

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"RIMikeG" <RIMikeG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4C0FB098-D99E-4D8B-9969-C59CD3DD1F9F@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Unfortunately the point was to make it as simple as possible for the
> HelpDesk - so that sounds like a lot of work.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> "Florian Frommherz [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> RIMikeG wrote:
>> > We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so
>> > that
>> > we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
>> >
>> > Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active
>> > Directory
>> > Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user
>> > they
>> > can easily enter it.
>>
>> You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
>> thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
>> custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Florian
>> --
>> Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
>> eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
>> blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
>> Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste
>>

Brandon
Sat Sep 06 17:38:40 PDT 2008

RIMikeG wrote:
> Hi,
> Unfortunately the point was to make it as simple as possible for the
> HelpDesk - so that sounds like a lot of work.

There are plenty of simple scripts available (in multiple languages)
which can be modified to support this. At work we have a 200 or 300 line
script to handle custom modification of employeeID and supervisor
written in tcl/tk which provides a GUI for users to modify. Short of
that, just use ADSIEdit to modify attributes which don't appear in ADUC.
ADSIEdit may be your preferred way anyway since it's already built and
only takes a few different clicks to get to a user's object compared to
ADUC.

>
> Regards
> Michael
>
> "Florian Frommherz [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> RIMikeG wrote:
>>> We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so that
>>> we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
>>>
>>> Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active Directory
>>> Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user they
>>> can easily enter it.
>> You basically could, but that involves some COM programming. Not an easy
>> thing to do. What I'd so in a case like this is see if you can script a
>> custom user creation/mgmt tool and customize it the way you need it.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Florian
>> --
>> Microsoft MVP - Group Policy
>> eMail: prename [at] frickelsoft [dot] net.
>> blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.
>> Maillist (german): http://frickelsoft.net/cms/index.php?page=mailingliste
>>

Jorge
Wed Sep 10 01:48:42 PDT 2008

either extend ADUC programatically OR

implement a VBS script that allows you to write and/or read the attribute

for a similar thing also see:
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2007/09/11/determining-the-effective-pso-for-a-user.aspx

in addition also see: http://www.kouti.com/scripts.htm and search for
"employee"
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"RIMikeG" <RIMikeG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E62ABE49-A380-4D15-9920-F70AB3B95E6C@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> We want to be able to enter Employee Number when creating a new User so
> that
> we can link AD Users to Payroll employee records.
>
> Ideally we would like to be able to see this as a field in Active
> Directory
> Users and Comptuers so that when the HelpDesk staff create the new user
> they
> can easily enter it.
>
> Is there a way to do this ?
>
> Regards
> Michael Green
>