As discussed on my earlier Blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sfu/archive/2011/05/25/scripts-to-populate-the-unix-attributes-when-migrating-from-sfu-3-5-to-rfc-2307-schema.aspx , So after running both the script as dicussed on the above blog, you would be able to populate the User's unix attribute...

We do get lot of issues where customer has migrated\upgraded from SFU 3.5 to Windows 2003 R2\2008\2008 R2 and is having issues with the Unix attributes of the users. In case you want to uninstall SFU 3.5 from your domain controllers and install the inbuilt components (i.e, Server for NIS, Password Sync...

There are many situations in which one need to manually populate information pertaining to Unix attribute tab. However we don’t recommend populating this information manually or using any script but just in case if you want to know then following are the attributes needed for users: uid: ...

We do get a lot of customer who would like to manage the UNIX related attribute from ADUC. This can be done once we install Server for NIS which creates a new tab “Unix attribute tab”. UNIX related attributes can be managed (populated/ updated) from this tab. But then customers do have reservation installing...

When using Identity Management for UNIX; we change active directory user password; we expect the related UNIX attributes to be changed promptly. There is couple of conditions that needs to be fulfilled. I am going to discuss all these in detail. To start with let’s check the UNIX related attributes...