To add on to Al's great answer... Did all of the attribute you expect to get added get added with all of the values you expected?
In the past I have found it worth pulling off a piece of production to do these tests. You promo up a DC for every domain of the production forest. You then segregate them into their own network, Ghost (or copy the virtual disks hint hint hint the spinoffs so you can go back if needed, manually hack them out of AD, manually hack the rest of AD out of the spin-offs. Promote some DCs from those spin-offs to make sure your test environment works properly. Ghost again. Apply the schema and start looking for issues. Note that you should look on DCs other than the DC you applied the changes to because I have seen where the issues were more apparent on the downstream machines. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 10:10 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Update Testing Procedure How you go about testing greatly depends on what you plan to test for. Can you give us some more information to go on? Often you're looking for collisions and mangled attributes (like that would ever happen ;) and any conflicts with other applications etc. You also often want to make sure that it goes in without issue and doesn't cause any replication issues etc. Al -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Walker Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Schema Update Testing Procedure We are in the middle of a migration to AD, and there have been two requests to update the schema for MS Live Communication Server and MS SMS 2003. We know we can follow the MS documentation and accomplish this in production, but we understand the need for testing first. However, we have no idea how to go about testing schema updates. Anything you can provide would be a great help. _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee(r) Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
