It is a DN (Distinguished Name) (a series of comma-separated key/value pairs used to identify entries uniquely in the directory hierarchy). The DN is actually the entry's fully qualified name. Here you can see an example where I added some more possible entries. The actual path is represented using green.

Active Directory Permissions Analyzer ♦ Vital LDAP Field - DN Distinguished Name. The keyword 'distinguished' means that this attribute is important, and it uniquely defines an Active Directory object. Therefore, each DN must have a unique name and location from all other objects in Active Directory. Active Directory naming standards supported include. NetBIOS names are the account names required for legacy NT environments. Fully qualified domain name FQDN the path to a network object : wmaples.dallas.support.mycompay.com is my fqdn. DN Distinguished names every object in AD has a DN. DN follows X.500 naming conventions. Get the Distinguished Name for an Active Directory Object Returns the distinguished name of an Active Directory object. This is useful if you don't know the location of a user, group or computer. Ratings . 5 Star (4) Favorites Add to favorites. Category Active Directory. Sub category. User Accounts. 10.1. Active Directory¶. Active Directory (AD) is a service for sharing resources in a Windows network. AD can be configured on a Windows server that is running Windows Server 2000 or higher or on a Unix-like operating system that is running Samba version 4.Since AD provides authentication and authorization services for the users in a network, it is not necessary to recreate the same user DN Formats in Active Directory (Binding and Search Base) by joe @ 7:28 pm on 5/3/2008. Filed under tech. So Active Directory can do some cool things around distinguishedNames (DNs) that many developers even this long into the availability of the product don't know or take advantage of. I mention this because yet again I ran into a case where

Microsoft Active Directory Syntax # Microsoft Active Directory has a few DN Syntaxs 2.5.5.1 Microsoft Active Directory 2.5.5.1 appears to be the same as 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.12 Microsoft also uses "DN String" as a name. 2.5.5.7 DNWithOctetString is also defined as 1.2.840.113556.1.4.903 in Draft-armijo-ldap-syntax-00

This DN, whose string representation doesn't have any characters, is often called the zero-length DN or the null DN. The null DN may be used to reference a special entry called the root DSE, which provides a lot of useful information about the directory server (e.g., the features supported by that server, the server software version, etc.). The Base DN is where the PAN will start searching in the directory structure. The Bind DN is the username that will be used to do the searching and request the authentication. Note: In Active Directory, a blank folder icon represent Containers (CN) while folders with icons are Organizational Units (OU). Microsoft Active Directory Syntax # Microsoft Active Directory has a few DN Syntaxs 2.5.5.1 Microsoft Active Directory 2.5.5.1 appears to be the same as 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.12 Microsoft also uses "DN String" as a name. 2.5.5.7 DNWithOctetString is also defined as 1.2.840.113556.1.4.903 in Draft-armijo-ldap-syntax-00

The Get-ADUser cmdlet gets a user object or performs a search to retrieve multiple user objects. The Identity parameter specifies the Active Directory user to get. You can identify a user by its distinguished name (DN), GUID, security identifier (SID), Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name or name. You can also set the parameter to a user object variable, such as $ or

Determining an LDAP distinguished name (DN) by using Active Directory search (Windows) If you have access to a Microsoft Windows computer that is registered with a Windows Active Directory domain, you can use the user search feature to determine a Windows Active Directory distinguished name. Active Directory Permissions Analyzer ♦ Vital LDAP Field - DN Distinguished Name. The keyword 'distinguished' means that this attribute is important, and it uniquely defines an Active Directory object. Therefore, each DN must have a unique name and location from all other objects in Active Directory. Active Directory naming standards supported include. NetBIOS names are the account names required for legacy NT environments. Fully qualified domain name FQDN the path to a network object : wmaples.dallas.support.mycompay.com is my fqdn. DN Distinguished names every object in AD has a DN. DN follows X.500 naming conventions. Get the Distinguished Name for an Active Directory Object Returns the distinguished name of an Active Directory object. This is useful if you don't know the location of a user, group or computer. Ratings . 5 Star (4) Favorites Add to favorites. Category Active Directory. Sub category. User Accounts. 10.1. Active Directory¶. Active Directory (AD) is a service for sharing resources in a Windows network. AD can be configured on a Windows server that is running Windows Server 2000 or higher or on a Unix-like operating system that is running Samba version 4.Since AD provides authentication and authorization services for the users in a network, it is not necessary to recreate the same user