MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Adding the distinguished name to the Person document
The LDAP distinguished name (DN) represents not only a user's name, but also the user's location in the organizational hierarchy, as defined by attributes which specify the organizational unit, organization, and country. For example, the following distinguished name tells you that the user named Susan Salani is in the Human Resources division of the Acme Corporation, located in the United States:

dn: cn=Susan Salani, ou=Human Resources, o=Acme Corporation, c=US

This hierarchical structure is similar to the one that Notes uses in forming the primary names of registered users, except that, in Notes, information about a user's organization and organizational unit come from the certifier ID used during registration.

Because the hierarchical information in imported distinguished names may conflict with Notes hierarchical information, by default the LDIF Domino Upgrade Service does not add the distinguished names to the User name field of the Person document when you register users imported from an LDIF file. The LDAP attributes O (Organization), and OU (Organizational Unit), and C (Country) are not mapped to fields in the Person document. Each mapping failure is noted in the Notes log.

If the users you migrate from an LDIF file will become directory entries only, and not registered Notes users, (that is, you will not create Notes IDs and mail files for them), you may want their Person documents to include the original distinguished names in their LDIF entries. The LDIF Domino Upgrade Service can add the original distinguished names from the migrated LDIF entries to the Person document as secondary values in the User name field of the Person document.

The primary entry in the User Name field of the Person document is always derived from the First Name and Last Name components, together with the organizational information taken from the certifier ID.

To add the original distinguished names from migrated LDIF entries as secondary values in the User name field, select the migration option "Add full name provided to the Notes Person document" on the People and Groups Migration dialog box.

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