Re: How to Get Schema Information...

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From: David (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:11:05 -0700

    
     ----- Eric Fleischman [MSFT] wrote: -----
     
     Hum. Well I'm not totally sure what you're looking for.
     The schema itself is documented up on MSDN so you can find a lot of details
     there.
     Short of that, you can use tools like ldp to view specific classes, or
     perhaps ldifde to dump the schema entirely to a text file. For example:
     ldifde -f schema.ldf -d "cn=schema,cn=configuration,dc=domain,dc=com"
     
     Of course you would put your own domain in there. ;)
     
     Is that along the lines of what you're looking for?
     
I am a DBA. If I were to inherit a database, I know exactly how I would go about to figure out what the various objects (tables, views, etc.) in the database are, how they are related, what values are allowed for a column, and so on... In short, I could figure out the data-structure, without needing access to application source code.

I guess what I was asking for is how would I do something like that for the AD.

In our AD, we have lots of classes added by IP telephony, Exchange, and other systems. I have no idea what they are. I can see various attributes, but do not know what values are allowed for each attribute and what the values mean... I can export the entire AD to say Access and try to figure things out. But I was wondering whether there is a different method that Network Engineers would use to figure out / maintain an AD they inherited?

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