Is the Location field in Active Directory used for anything other than listing where objects are physically located?
I am interested if this is just a user friendly field to help people find printers etc. or if a change to this field will have some other effect.
Best Answer
Exactly that - the physical location of the object. Changing it won't affect anything else unless an external system uses or updates it. For example, in large enterprises, attributes like this could be populated from and synchronised with an asset tracking database using an IdM system like MS ILM/FIM.