{"id":369,"date":"2011-05-18T14:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:58:47","slug":"export-compare-and-synchronize-active-directory-schemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/scripting\/export-compare-and-synchronize-active-directory-schemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Export, Compare, and Synchronize Active Directory Schemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this link in my notes for a long time.  I&#8217;ve only used it twice, but thought it was worth sharing.  If you ever need to make a test Active Directory for some really crazy testing, and you&#8217;ve ever extended the schema, you may want those extended attributes.  There is a really good article over at Microsoft Technet that walks through this process: <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/2009.04.schema.aspx?pr=blog\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/2009.04.schema.aspx?pr=blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll generalize the steps&#8230;but this is basically what is going on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exporting the existing schema using LDIFDE<\/li>\n<li>Comparision to another schema using AD DS\/LDS Schema Analyzer<\/li>\n<li>Exporting the schema differences (using AD DS\/LDS Analyzer)<\/li>\n<li>Importing the schema differences into the target forest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The instructions are pretty straight forward, so just take a look here if you are interested: <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/2009.04.schema.aspx?pr=blog\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/2009.04.schema.aspx?pr=blog<\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this link in my notes for a long time. I&#8217;ve only used it twice, but thought it was worth sharing. If you ever need to make a test Active Directory for some really crazy testing, and you&#8217;ve ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/scripting\/export-compare-and-synchronize-active-directory-schemas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messaging","category-scripting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}