Exchange + the outlook user card

mrbios · 17 May 2011 at 11:56

We use the company field in AD to syncronise with uniflow which we use for print management, we've just noticed that this field is displayed next to the users name and department in their outlook user card, we don't use the field for it's intended purpose, instead we use it for individual staff numbers.

We need to stop the company field from displaying on the outlook user card as some staff are quite funny about having their staff number on show to other staff, is it possible to remove this field from the display?

Please tell me it's possible, i don't want to go through the whole thing moving the current company field entries

Muffin` · 17 May 2011 at 12:16

can you not utilise Custom Attributes, or does that print software only read from that field?

mrbios · 17 May 2011 at 12:19

I can set any attribute in AD to be the one that is syncronised with uniflow but it just seemed easier to put all the information that will sync with uniflow on one tab of AD in department/company etc at the time of setting it up. It's a long process to move it all now.

We don't need a lot of the different information tabs AD has in our environment so we've never filled it in before now, thus never noticed it did that with the outlook user card

If i knew powershell there may be some way of scripting the change but i wouldn't know how to do that sadly.

PR. · 17 May 2011 at 13:00

There must be some kind of bulk edit tool that can allow to cut the staff numbers from Company and paste them in one of the custom attributes

Something like this might help: ?
http://www.activedir.org/Articles/tabid/54/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/66/Default.aspx

mrbios · 17 May 2011 at 13:21

PR. you are a star! That worked a treat!