Monday, February 18, 2013

msDS- Attributes in Active Directory

This is a short post to explain what msDS- attributes are in Active Directory.  As an administrator responsible for maintaining your companies Active Directory environment at some stage you have probably seen a bunch of msDS attributes linked to class objects such as user accounts.

What are msDS- attributes and how are they different to other attributes?

msDS- attributes are designed to hold data for Microsoft applications.  As best practice Microsoft recommends administrators never modify msDS- attributes as it can cause issues with applications.

Any attribute beginning with msDS- reference it, but do not modify it unless the changes is made through the application to avoid issues in your environment.

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