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Microsoft Active Directory tables & parameters

The table below shows available Microsoft Active Directory database tables for both exports and imports. Table parameters are provided in separate sections.

Table Name 

Description

A 

Account 

The account object class is used to define entries that represent computer accounts.

ApplicationEntity 

X.500 base class for applications: Directory Service only uses subclass MSFT-DSA.

ApplicationProcess 

X.500 base class for applications: Exchange only uses subclass DSA-Application.

ApplicationSettings 

Base class for server-specific application settings.

ApplicationSiteSettings 

Contains all site-specific settings.

ApplicationVersion 

Can be used by application developers to store version information about their application or its schema.

B 

BuiltinDomain 

The container that holds the default groups for a domain.

C 

CertificationAuthority 

Represents a process that issues public key certificates, for example, a Certificate Server.

Computer 

This class represents a computer account in the domain.

Contact 

This class contains information about a person or company that you may need to contact on a regular basis.

CRLDistributionPoint 

The object holding Certificate, Authority, and Delta Revocation lists.

D 

DHCPClass 

Represents a DHCP Server (or set of servers).

DnsNode 

Holds the DNS resource records for a single host.

DnsZone 

The container for DNS Nodes. Holds zone metadata.

Domain 

Contains information about a domain.

DomainDNS 

Windows NT domain with DNS-based (DC=) naming.

DomainPolicy 

Defines the local security authority policy for one or more domains.

DomainRelatedObject 

The domainRelatedObject object class is used to define an entry that represents a series of documents.

F 

ForeignSecurityPrincipal 

The Security Principal from an external source.

G 

Group 

Stores a list of user names.Used to apply security principals on resources.

GroupOfNames 

Used to define entries that represent an unordered set of names that represent individual objects or other groups of names.

GroupOfUniqueNames 

Defines the entries for a group of unique names. In general, used to store account objects.

GroupPolicyContainer 

This represents the Group Policy Object. It is used to define group polices.

I 

IpHost 

Represents an abstraction of a host or other IP device.

IpNetwork 

Represents an abstraction of a network. The distinguished name value of the Common-Name attribute denotes the canonical name of the network.

O 

Organization 

Stores information about a company or organization.

OrganizationalPerson 

This class is used for objects that contain organizational information about a user, such as the employee number, department, manager, title, office address, and so on.

OrganizationalRole 

This class is used for objects that contain information that pertains to a position or role within an organization, such as a system administrator, manager, and so on. It can also be used for a nonhuman identity in an organization.

OrganizationalUnit 

A container for storing users, computers, and other account objects.

P 

Person 

Contains personal information about a user.

PosixAccount 

Represents an abstraction of an account with Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) attributes.

PosixGroup 

Represents an abstraction of a group of accounts.

PrintQueue 

Contains information about a print queue.

S 

SecurityObject 

This is an auxiliary class that is used to identify security principals.

SecurityPrincipal 

Contains the security information for an object.

Server 

This class represents a server computer in a site.

Site 

A container for storing server objects. Represents a physical location that contains computers. Used to manage replication.

T 

Top 

The top level class from which all classes are derived.

TrustedDomain 

An object that represents a domain trusted by (or trusting)the local domain.

U 

User 

This class is used to store information about an employee or contractor who works for an organization.It is also possible to apply this class to long term visitors.