Can you convert an attribute's value to something more user friendly?

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/recipient-type-values/7c2620e5-9870-48ba-b5c2-7772c739c651?auth=1 
 So there are attributes which can tell you what type of [exchange] mailbox a user has. 
 msExchRecipientDisplayType aka RecipientType

-2147483642 
 MailUser (RemoteUserMailbox)

-2147481850 
 MailUser (RemoteRoomMailbox)

-2147481594 
 MailUser (RemoteEquipmentMailbox)

0 
 UserMailbox (shared)

1 
 MailUniversalDistributionGroup

6 
 MailContact

7 
 UserMailbox (room)

8 
 UserMailbox (equipment)

1073741824 
 UserMailbox

1073741833 
 MailUniversalSecurityGroup

What I'd love to be able to do is to convert the value of let's say: -2147483642 and have it show as RemoteUserMailbox when someone looked at the value in the console.
Any way to do that type of attribute/value mapping?

JohnnyQuest · Answer

It might be easier to create Managed Units for the various Exchange object types and then just use the numbers in the left column to select the objects to include in the Manage Unit membership. So in your interface, for example, you would see a Managed Unit you created called "All Mail Contacts" and its membership criteria would be all msExchRecipientDisplayType = 6 
 Here's an article on Managed Units.

JohnnyQuest · Answer

The other approach you could take to this is to setup a companion "friendly" virtual attribute (sample name: edsva_msExchRecipientDisplayTypeFriendly) and add it to a user property tab in Web UI to provide the translation of this data.

I would create a Change Workflow that would detect the population of msExchRecipientDisplayType and then using a simple Powershell lookup script activity, set the value of edsva_msExchRecipientDisplayTypeFriendly to the friendly value from the table above.

Can you convert an attribute's value to something more user friendly?

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