Is there any way to have multiple managers and/or departments in active directory?
A:
Active directory is Microsofts implementation of the LDAP standard. It conforms to the LDAP v3 standard.
So, yes, there is a way.
Andrew Sledge
2009-06-22 18:35:20
How can I do it? Looking at the Manager and departement attribute, they are single value.
Jeremy
2009-06-22 18:37:44
You assign the necessary people to groups and OUs. Then specify permissions to those groups and OUs.
Andrew Sledge
2009-06-22 18:38:38
I can see how that might accomodate departments, what about managers?
Jeremy
2009-06-22 18:45:29
A:
You can create OU's in Active Directory, here is an example...
http://helpdeskgeek.com/networking/setting-up-organizational-units-in-active-directory/
Zachary
2009-06-22 18:42:42
+1
A:
No, I'm afraid that's not possible. According to the standard Active Directory schema, the "manager" property of a user is a single-valued property, e.g. it can contain only a single value (or none).
Check out Richard Mueller's site with lots of great overviews of all AD attributes and more - excellent resource for AD related questions.
You could potentially extend the AD schema - that's always possible in LDAP - but it's not a very simple and awfully easy to understand process, I'm afraid......
Marc
marc_s
2009-06-22 21:25:00