Thursday 20 October 2016

Windows SBS 2011 Missing Attributes tab in Active Directory

Today I had to check proxyAddresses attributes for users, however, SBS 2011 did not display Attribute Editor tab in AD.
After searching the Internet, found this article.

Below are the steps on how to enable Attribute Editor in Active Directory on SBS 2011.
As always you should have a good backup, including system state, before editing AD.Note the values to add, such as “11,{c7436f12-a27f-4cab-aaca-2bd27ed1b773}”  need to be exact , without quotes. All three entries are similar but copy carefully as they are not the same.  There will probably be multiple entries already present under the attribute, you are just adding one more….assuming it is not already present.

-Open ADSIedit-At the top of the 'tree' right click on ADSIedit and choose "connect to" 
-Under connection point select "select a well known Naming context" and in that window choose configuration-under computer leave as "Default (Domain or server that you logged into)" 
Assuming you are logged onto the SBS 
-Click OK 
-expand (click on the +) CN=configuration, DC=<your domain>, DC=local-expand CD=DisplaySpecifiers-click on CN=your language.   
The language # can be found on  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324097 (for example US English is 409, so CN=409.  I assume this is the language you chose when setting up the server) 
-in the right hand window locate CN=User-Display right click on it and choose properties.      
-Locate AdminPropertyPages, highlight it and click “edit” and add the line 11,{c7436f12-a27f-4cab-aaca-2bd27ed1b773} 
-in the right hand window locate CN=Computer-Display right click on it and choose properties.     
-Locate AdminPropertyPages, highlight it and click “edit” and add the line 12,{c7436f12-a27f-4cab-aaca-2bd27ed1b773}
-in the right hand window locate CN= Default-Display right click on it and choose properties.     
-Locate AdminPropertyPages, highlight it and click “edit” and add the line 4,{c7436f12-a27f-4cab-aaca-2bd27ed1b773}

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