What's the difference between the User object and the INetOrgPerson object?

[Spin]

Would a guru please explain to me the difference between the User object and
the INetOrgPerson object in one sentence or less?

[Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]]

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Post by Spin
Would a guru please explain to me the difference between the User
object and the INetOrgPerson object in one sentence or less?

InetOrgPerson was defined as RFC 2798 in LDAP, user is MS-World

(one sentence or less ;-) ).

[Spin]

Thanks, but what does that mean in English???

Post by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]
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Post by Spin
Would a guru please explain to me the difference between the User
object and the INetOrgPerson object in one sentence or less?

InetOrgPerson was defined as RFC 2798 in LDAP, user is MS-World
(one sentence or less ;-) ).
--
Gruesse - Sincerely,
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

[Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]]

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Post by Spin
Thanks, but what does that mean in English???

Post by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]
Spin says...

Post by Spin
Would a guru please explain to me the difference between the User
object and the INetOrgPerson object in one sentence or less?

InetOrgPerson was defined as RFC 2798 in LDAP, user is MS-World
(one sentence or less ;-) ).

The RFC defines that a userobject in a LDAP Directory is a
INetOrgPerson. Several non-MS directories do that. And it's one of the
major reason why some company is bitching about MS and concerning that
AD is not RFC-conform.

Keeping in mind that Windows 2000 and Active Directory was released it
is funny to read which company authored the RFC and when it is dated.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2798.txt

With Windows Server 2003 Microsoft was able to reflect that RFC into
their Active Directory, and that is the reason why we are able to use
either classical Useraccounts or INetOrgPersons as "Containers" for the
definition of a user. This might be necessary if you connect other
services to AD which expect INetOrgPersons as users.

[Dmitri Gavrilov [MSFT]]

I'm going to beat that. Here it is in a single word (no spaces!)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnactdir/html/inetopkit.asp

Spin, if you want a sensible explanation, then one sentence won't do. Read
the paper. Perhaps then Ulf's answer will make more sense.
--
Dmitri Gavrilov
SDE, Active Directory Core

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Post by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP]
Spin says...

Post by Spin
Would a guru please explain to me the difference between the User
object and the INetOrgPerson object in one sentence or less?

InetOrgPerson was defined as RFC 2798 in LDAP, user is MS-World
(one sentence or less ;-) ).
--
Gruesse - Sincerely,
Ulf B. Simon-Weidner