User prefix and suffix

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What is the best place to store user prefix and suffix information in
AD?

I am working with a relegious organization and need to add prefixes
and suffixes to some of the users accounts ie. Fr. Bob Smith or Sr.
Mary Margret, SNJM.

One possibility would be to utilize incorporate them into the first
and last name fields, but that makes searching for the users by first
or last name complex.

What is the standard, or best practice?

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

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What is the best place to store user prefix and suffix information in
AD?
I am working with a relegious organization and need to add prefixes
and suffixes to some of the users accounts ie. Fr. Bob Smith or Sr.
Mary Margret, SNJM.
One possibility would be to utilize incorporate them into the first
and last name fields, but that makes searching for the users by first
or last name complex.
What is the standard, or best practice?

AD has many user object attributes that don't show up in ADUC. For example:

Attribute name Description
-------------- ---------------
personalTitle User's title
generationalQualifier Indicates a person's generation. For example, Jr.
or II
middleName Additional names for a user. For example middle
name, patronymic, matronymic or others

Attributes are documented at this link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms675090.aspx

I have spreadsheets documenting AD attributes linked here:

http://www.rlmueller.net/UserAttributes.htm

The first spreadsheet documents the attributes corresponding to fields in
the user properties dialog of ADUC. The second documents all attributes in
default installation of W2k AD. You can filter on user objects. This is
where I got info on the 3 attributes above. I got the descriptions
originally from the predecessor to the first link. I have never seen any
other guidance on best practice.