Active Directory Schema Manager Snap-in

Active Directory Schema Manager Snap-in

The Active Directory Schema Manager snap-in is the preferred GUI tool (the other one is the ADSI Edit snap-in; its usage requires that you have a more advanced familiarity with Active Directory's interiors) that allows viewing and modifying of Active Directory classes and the attributes the classes contain. (Two other ways to extend the schema are scripting and using command-line tools, such as LDIFDE and CSVDE.) This snap-in allows an administrator to view X.500 OIDs of classes and attributes, a range of values for attributes, mandatory and optional attributes for classes, and other meta-information on attributes and classes.