Understanding How Attributes Are Synchronized

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

After you install and run the Office Communications Server Sync tool as described earlier in Step 1 Configure MIIS, this section of the document discusses how the attributes on the User and contact objects are modified.

For more information about the attributes synchronized by the Office Communications Server Sync tool for user objects and the corresponding contacts, see Table 1 "The attributes on the User and Contact objects" and Table 2 "The attributes on the Group and Contact objects" later in this section.

The Office Communications Server Sync tool synchronizes the following attributes:

• ObjectSid

• telephoneNumber

• displayName

• givenName

• sn (surname)

• physicalDeliveryOfficeName

• l (city)

• st (state)

• Country

• Title

• Mail

• Company

• Cn

• Distinguished name

If you are using GAL (global address list) sync with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, you must manually configure GAL sync to synchronize the distinguished name of user to populate the Ms-DS-SourceObjectDN on the contact object for the user. The attribute is automatically synchronized by the Office Communications Server Sync tool.

Table 1 shows how attributes are mapped from a user object to a contact object using the example user, User A.

Table 1 The attributes on the User and Contact objects