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Active Directory Name Attributes for Prefix and Suffix?

Are their attributes in Active Directory for a person's prefix or suffix? For example, if the person was named Dr. John Smith, Jr., PhD, I know the Jr. can go in the generational qualifier attribute. But I don't know where Dr. or PhD would go.

Thanks for the assistance.

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Joseph Daly

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usslindstrom

Agreed with mkline71 here. In all places I've worked, the "Display name" is where this info was stored.

Users requesting this sort of change, will 99.999% do so becuase that's how they'd like it to display in the GAL. Extending the AD Schema to add another data item, won't have the result that your users are probably wanting.

I recommend using Mike's suggestion of "Display name" for this.

ZekeLA

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I found an attribute list that says personalTitle is akin to Name Prefix (and GenerationalQualifier is akin to Name Suffix). But since we also want the ability for accreditations (, MD or , RN, LPN) we'd either have to create a custom attribute or build a single field as suggested by Mike.

Mike's suggestion is the one we're going with.

Mike Kline

Glad to help, makes sense now, Doctors want people to know they are MDs :)

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Mike