robrichardson
Programmer
Does anyone know how to setup the global address list so that the individual names appear as lastname, firstname?
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Yup. You need to change the display names for the user accounts. This is the way that I did it:
One minor point, the TechNet article says in step #13:
Set the attribute to %<sn>.%<givenName>. Make sure that you click Set.
In my case, I changed the attribute to the more common %<sn>, %<givenName>.
That should cover any new accounts as they are created. Now all you have to do is change the display name on all the old accounts. In my case, I only had about 100 or so users, so I just passed it off to my intern.
If you want to get fancy, it shouldn't be too difficult to write a script in .VBS that connects to ADSI and switches users users display names.
One minor point, the TechNet article says in step #13:
Set the attribute to %<sn>.%<givenName>. Make sure that you click Set.
In my case, I changed the attribute to the more common %<sn>, %<givenName>.
That should cover any new accounts as they are created. Now all you have to do is change the display name on all the old accounts. In my case, I only had about 100 or so users, so I just passed it off to my intern.
If you want to get fancy, it shouldn't be too difficult to write a script in .VBS that connects to ADSI and switches users users display names.
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