Where to store complete first names, middle name and last name in Active Directory?

Question

Hello:

I have the next name in my country:

Juan Jose Perez Gomez

where

(1) first name is "Juan Jose",

(2) middle name (Father's surname) is "Perez" and

(3) second name (Mother's surname) is "Gomez"

Which Active Directory property names do you recommend to use for storing separately (1), (2) and (3) ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

What about givenName for First name, initials to store middle name and sn for last name?

Edit: Looks like the initials column will accept only 6 characters. There is a Display name column. Can't you use this for displaying the whole name and store First and/or middle name in givenName and sn for last name.

The initial idea of storing middle name in initial was from a blog which had a sample code. The author had used initials for middle name. After reading your comment I checked the active directory and found the limitation in the length.

Answer 2

Using the extensionAttributes for storing data is not ideal especially if it is quite specific, such as part of the name. Also extensionAttributeX attributes only exist (unless you create them yourself), in an AD environment with MS Exchange installed.

The best way would be to create your own attribute in the AD schema.

I did a quick google search and found this article which looks good.