Applies to: desktop apps only

Specifies a format for a directory service object name.

Syntax

typedef enum  {
  NameUnknown            = 0,
  NameFullyQualifiedDN   = 1,
  NameSamCompatible      = 2,
  NameDisplay            = 3,
  NameUniqueId           = 6,
  NameCanonical          = 7,
  NameUserPrincipal      = 8,
  NameCanonicalEx        = 9,
  NameServicePrincipal   = 10,
  NameDnsDomain          = 12 
} EXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT, *PEXTENDED_NAME_FORMAT;

Constants

NameUnknown

An unknown name type.

NameFullyQualifiedDN

The fully qualified distinguished name (for example, CN=Jeff Smith,OU=Users,DC=Engineering,DC=Microsoft,DC=Com).

NameSamCompatible

A legacy account name (for example, Engineering\JSmith). The domain-only version includes trailing backslashes (\\).

NameDisplay

A "friendly" display name (for example, Jeff Smith). The display name is not necessarily the defining relative distinguished name (RDN).

NameUniqueId

A GUID string that the IIDFromString function returns (for example, {4fa050f0-f561-11cf-bdd9-00aa003a77b6}).

NameCanonical

The complete canonical name (for example, engineering.microsoft.com/software/someone). The domain-only version includes a trailing forward slash (/).

NameUserPrincipal

The user principal name (for example, someone@example.com).

NameCanonicalEx

The same as NameCanonical except that the rightmost forward slash (/) is replaced with a new line character (\n), even in a domain-only case (for example, engineering.microsoft.com/software\nJSmith).

NameServicePrincipal

The generalized service principal name (for example, www/www.microsoft.com@microsoft.com).

NameDnsDomain

The DNS domain name followed by a backward-slash and the SAM user name.

Requirements

See also

GetComputerObjectName

GetUserNameEx

TranslateName

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Build date: 3/6/2012