What is the attribute directReports and how is it being populated.
How will Collaboration Services, &/or Migration Manager handle this attribute?
Is there something special about this attribute?
Migration Manager and Collaboration Services have no issue with this attribute, but should any issues arise (eg. warnings in the log files) then it is good to know how this attribute gets populated.
By many tools and by migration products this attribute will be treated as backlink attribute.
When working in AD this attribute is not being populated directly by admins, it is being populated by Active Directory
Example:
In AD you open properties of account A and specify account B as manager.
But now when you examine the account B you will notice under directReports the name of user A.
This was done by AD, no manual intervention was done to user B, you only modified the account of user A .
AD is populating those backlinks.
This is a simple non-technical explanation of the issue.
Note: When dealing with those attributes it is especially important to specify a preferred DC, in QCS this can be done under AD options (QCS properties), to configure this in QMM please see KB14630. After a preferred DC has been specified this DC can be used when troubleshooting (when looking up attributes via ADSIEdit)
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