The schema of an Active Directory is the definition of all objects in that instance of Active Directory. The schema of Austin Active Directory consists of the default attributes and classes for Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft Exchange as well as the custom utexasAuxClass and the associated attributes.
The following classes are the object classes most commonly used object classes and have been extended with the utexasAuxClass to support attributes beyond the defaults defined by Microsoft:
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leveraged by end-users and department IT staff:
- user class - objects that represent unique user accounts and that are either EID-based accounts created with information from the EID system or department accounts created via the Department User Tools
- Groups group classs - objects that represent logical collections groups of other objects such as distribute lists and security groups; groups are created via Office 365 Management Tools, the Department Group Tools, or directly by department IT staff
- Computers - objects that represent unique computer objects - devices connected to Active Directory and can be optionally managed via Group Policy
- Organizational Units organizationalUnit objects - objects that define the structure of Active Directory and are commonly created to organize objects
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- containers for objects; organizational units are used to define a structure inside Active Directory
The classes above have been extended with the utexasAuxClass class. This class enables the Austin Active Directory to store more information on objects than is permitted by default schema. The Active Directory team manages the assignment of attributes in the utexasAuxClass and assigns attributes on a per-object basis. The attributes these classes are defined in the attribute maps detailed below:
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