I am trying to find out where sharepoint gets the usernames from. In wss 3 on the "Personal settings" page there is a field name. In some cases it is populated with the login (like domain\username), on some installations I find it to be the actual name of the user. I guess that sharepoint at some point gets the real name from active directory - so that its not displayed "welcome domain\username", it should display "welcome firstname lastname" or something like that.
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Initially SharePoint uses the information from Active Directory to populate the fields in WSS. Next to that, there is a timerjob that runs to sync the information in AD and SharePoint, though I'm not sure whether this is MOSS feature only or that it's also available in WSS
Robin Meuré
2009-07-20 10:51:48
Syncing the UserProfile properties from AD to SharePoint userprofile DB is MOSS only feature
Kusek
2009-07-20 11:04:36
Do you know which field in AD that sharepoint uses to populate the name property? In my case name gets the login id (domain\username) I am guessing that we are missing some information in AD.
Oddleif
2009-07-20 11:14:31
but what about the initial property mapping? When a user is added for the first time, information is pulled fom AD to the user profile in sharepoint. Anyone has a mapping table for this? like what ad properties are added to which profile property in sharepoint?
Oddleif
2009-07-20 12:21:22