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Overview

The schema of an Active Directory schema is the definition of all objects in that object classes and attributes in an instance of Active Directory. The schema of the Austin Active Directory is managed by the Active Directory team and consists of the default attributes and classes for classes and attributes required by Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft Exchange as well as the custom utexasAuxClass and the associated attributes.schema extensions that update the schema to support other applications and services. A condensed history of the schema extensions applied to the Austin Active Directory is available on the following page:

• Schema History

Objects

The following are the most commonly referenced object classes most commonly leveraged by both 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

  that are either distribution lists for e-mail which are created via

  Office

  the Microsoft 365 Management Tools

  ,

  or security groups for defining access to resources which are created via the Department Group Tools

  ,

  or directly by department IT staff

• computer

  objects

  class - devices connected to the Austin 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

  which can be used by department IT staff to create hierarchy for objects in the Austin Active Directory

...

Auxiliary Classes

The Austin Active Directory has also 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. utexasEduAustinAuxClass and utexasEduAzureAuxClass auxiliary classes. These classes define a set of attributes that allow additional information to be stored on existing objects. Please see the following page for more information:

• Schema - Custom attributes and classes

Attributes

The Active Directory team manages the assignment of attributes in the utexasAuxClass and assigns attributes on a per-class-per-attribute basis. The attributes these classes . For example: the assignment of the utexasEduAustinSingle1 attribute for use on computer objects does not preclude the assignment of the same attribute for a different use on group objects. The attribute assignments are defined in the attribute maps detailed below:children

• Schema Attribute Map - Users

• Schema Attribute Map - Groups

• Schema Attribute Map - Computers

• Schema Attribute Map - OrganizationalUnits