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The following are the object classes most commonly leveraged by end-users and department IT staff:
- user class - user objects that represent user accounts that are either EID -based accounts created with information from the EID system or department accounts created via the Department User Tools
- group classs class - objects that represent groups of objects such as distribute lists and security groups; groups are created via Office 365 Management Tools, that are either distribution lists for e-mail created via the Microsoft 365 Management Tools or security groups created via the Department Group Tools , or directly by department IT staff
- computer objects class - devices connected to Active Directory and can be optionally managed via Group Policy
- organizationalUnit objects class - containers for objects; organizational units are used to define a structure inside Active Directory
The classes above have been extended with the utexasAuxClass auxiliary class. This class enables adds additional attributes to the objects and allows 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-class basis. The use cases for assigned attributes these classes are defined in the attribute maps detailed below:
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