Category: Active Directory

Add user principal name suffixes Updated: January 21, 2005 Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 Adding user principal name suffixes To add user principal name suffixes Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts. In the console tree, right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts, and then click Properties. On the UPN Suffixes tab, type an alternative user principal name (UPN) suffix for the forest, and then click Add. Repeat step 3 to add additional alternative UPN suffixes. Notes To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the […]

Active Directory naming Updated: January 21, 2005 Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 Active Directory naming Active Directory domain names are usually the full Domain Name System (DNS) name of the domain. However, for backward compatibility, each domain also has a pre-Windows 2000 name for use by computers running pre-Windows 2000 operating systems. The pre-Windows 2000 domain name can be used to log on to a Windows Server 2003 domain from computers running pre-Windows 2000 operating systems using the DomainNameUserName format. This same format can also be […]

This step-by-step article describes how to use the Csvde.exe utility to create contacts and user accounts in Active Directory. You may have to use this method in some scenarios, for example, when administrators want to export custom recipients from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and import them into Active Directory as Microsoft Windows contacts. Csvde.exe is a Microsoft Windows 2000 command-line utility that is located in the SystemRootSystem32 folder after you install Windows 2000. Csvde.exe is similar to Ldifde.exe, but it extracts information in a comma-separated value (CSV) format. You can use Csvde to import and export Active Directory data that […]