A couple years ago the Commvault sales guy said their product could back and restore just the schema. Never got into details though so who knows how realistic of a statement that was though. (eg you can always back out schema changes if you flatten the forest and start over ;-))
Steve Evans -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Onyszko Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Extending AD Schema Adeel Ansari wrote: > AD Guys and Gals, > > Is there is a way to backout of AD Schema extension? > > We have a project that requires AD Schema extension. The vendor has a > tool that will make changes in AD schema automatically. However, we are little conscious about it. Is it possible to export the current AD schema and then make extension. Would it be possible to import it back again? Hmm, can they provide you with these schema extensions documentation - do they have proper OIDs assigned or they are using some self-produced OIDs? You should ask that questions before going any further and You should check if their schema extension will not conflict with attributes and classes You have now and possibly in the future (OIDs). You can't roll back the schema which was replicated in the forest without performing schema recovery procedure. You can defunct some part of the schema: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ad/ad/disab ling_existing_classes_and_attributes.asp > > Can you guys/gals share your experience with schema extensions / updates? Here is a bit information which I've gathered in my blog's post: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/archive/2006/02/09/exending_schema.aspx There was also discussion on this topic on ActiveDir.org not so long ago so be sure to go and check the archive. -- Tomasz Onyszko http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL) http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
