Greetings,
I have searched the forums quite a bit to see if there was any guidance on addling/linkingexisting AD attributes to an existing object class. For example we are looking at adding the pre-existing buildingName and roomNumber attributes to the user object class so we can maintain what building and/or room number a user is in.
To my knowledge these attributes are used for computer objects, and aside from not being linked to the user class object they appear to be perfect candidates for what we want to do.
I have found plenty of posts about using existing and linked attributes to store data (such as employeeID), or completely creating your own custom attributes, but not anything that speaks to using an attribute that already exists but just isn't currently linked.
Essentially we just want to open up the "user" object class in the Schema snap=in and Add those two pre-existing attributes as optional attributes. Is there any harm to doing this? I can't see why rusing existing attributes and making them available to the user object class would be bad, especially since the current attribute definitions are fine.
Thanks!