Attributes for AD Users : description
The Active Directory attribute description can store any descriptive information about the user object.
description
| LDAP Name | description |
| Data type | String (max 1024) |
| Multivalue (Array) | No |
| System Flags | 0x10 |
| Search Flags | 0x0 |
| Im Global Catalog? | Yes |
| Attribute ID | 2.5.4.13 |
| AD DB Attributname | Description |
| ADSI datatype | 3 - String(Unicode) |
| LDAP syntax | 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 - Directory String |
| Used in ... | > W2K |
| Schema Doku | Microsoft - MSDN |
Please note that description is stored as a multivalued attribute
in the AD database, so it could contain several different values. However, in the 'AD Users and Computers' admin tool, you always see only the first array member of this mutltivalue. There are two different description about accessing multivalue attributes in the SelfADSI tutorial:
SelfADSI Reference - Changing Multivalued Attributes with PutEx