The General tab

The General tab of the property sheet for users.

The General tab always displays the user’s role (User or Company, Department, or Group administrator), first name, initials, last name, display name, login name, and account status (enabled or disabled) information. The other boxes are for optional user information.

Optionally type user-specific information in the Description and Office boxes.

In the Telephone Number box, type the user’s main telephone contact number. To add a number, click Other beside the Telephone Number box. In the resulting Add Item dialog box, type the alternate number(s) in the upper text box. Click Add to place it in the display pane. Click OK to finish.

The Add Item dialog box for telephone number information.

To remove or edit an existing telephone number, select it in the main display pane; click Remove or Edit.

In the Web Page box, type the URL of the user’s personal Web page (or some other relevant URL). To add other URLs, click Other beside the Web Page box. Type and add the other URLs in the resulting Add Item dialog box using the same procedures as for telephone numbers.

The Add Item dialog box for Web page information.

To remove or edit an existing Web page address, select it in the main display pane; click Remove or Edit.

The user’s UPN Login prefix can be changed from its text box. If Always Enforce Login Policy is selected on the Login Policy tab of the user’s home company or organizational unit, the NT4 Login Name box on the general tab of the user’s property sheet will be unavailable. However, if the User Login Name Policy for the user’s home company or organizational unit is set to NT4 Login Name is the same as your UPN Prefix or UPN and NT4 login names are the same, the text in the NT4 Login Name box will automatically change to match whatever changes you make in the UPN Login box.

For example, if you change the UPN login prefix for the user shown above from Bill.Li to bill, as shown below, the NT4 login name automatically changes to bill as well.

The UPN Login and NT4 Login Name text boxes on the General tab of the user property sheet showing how a changed UPN login automatically changes the NT4 Login Name box.

However, if the User Login Name Policy for the user’s home company or organizational unit is set to Serialized NT4 Login Name, the text in the NT4 Login Name box will not change even if you change the UPN Login information, as shown below. The user’s numerical NT4 login name remains unchanged.

The UPN Login and NT4 Login Name text boxes on the General tab of the user property sheet showing how a changed UPN login name does not affect a serialized numerical NT4 login name.

If the Always Enforce Login Policy check box is cleared on the Login Policy tab of the user’s home company or organizational unit, the NT4 Login Name box on the General tab of the user’s property sheet will be available, as shown below. This NT4 login name can be changed independently of the UPN login name if desired, including if it is in the numerical serialized format shown immediately above. This is the only case when a serialized login name can be changed.

The UPN Login and NT4 Login Name text boxes on the General tab of the user property sheet showing the NT4 login name available for modification; this happens only when the Always Enforce Login Policy check box is cleared on the Login Policy tab of the user’s home company or organizational unit .

Select or clear the Account Disabled check box to disable or enable the user’s account. This check box is cleared by default unless the user’s account has been disabled (see Disabling and enabling user accounts).

The Account Locked check box is available only when an account is locked after a set number of failed logins caused by an invalid password. For details on managing locked accounts, see Account lockout support.

The Account Expires option is initially set when the user is created. To change the account expiration, select the desired option; if you select End of, either:

A)   Type a date in mm/dd/yyyy format in the text box (10/31/2008 for October 31, 2008, for example).

B)   Click the  button next to the End of drop-down list. Set the expiration date using the resulting calendar, as shown below.

Setting the expiration date from the General tab of the property sheet.

Select the expiration year and month from the upper lists. Next, click the expiration day of the month in the main calendar body, as shown above. The account expiration date will appear in the End of box on the General tab.