Hi, I have the following situation: I need to create a new tab with some extra informations (ex: Function, Office Work). This tab should be seen on the Active Directory (Windows Server 2003). The administrator wants to access this information (see the tab) from a work station with XP system operation. Does someone could help me to acomplish this task? Thank you... Angelo Mestriner

Hello Angelo I am not sure exactly what you intend to accomplish, but editing the schema is something that need to be taking seriously, because any error will affect your entire forest/domain. Normally, the application vendor for which you need to extend the schema will give you instructions on how to do that. Try contacting the vendors for the application and see what they sayIsaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE

Hello, if the existing options aren't enough start here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.05.schema.aspx?pr=blog http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961737.aspx But BEFORE doing this on a production environment try it in lab to be sure it works.Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

You can't make “tab” by extending the schema. You need to write a MMC Property page extension DLL. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa814525.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa814622.aspx However, you can add an available column to AD users and Computers to the list of users by using ADSIedit . Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ http://publications.sivarajan.com/ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Santhosh, I did some steps and I created a tab, I used the ASSIedit and some dlls to configure the AD and I created the tab.. The most problem here, is that, I can't see the changes I did in the XP workstation.. only on the server... I replicated all the steps on the XP workstation (I figured out that should be the same steps on the server) but the tab didn't appear.. What I need to do?? Thanks.. Angelo Mestriner

How did you configure this? You need to provide more information about your configuration. Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ http://publications.sivarajan.com/ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi , Have you created a custom attribute ? and are you planning to manage the Schema extenstions through the tab ? Or another option wuld be to create custom schema and yes with this you have to extend schema , but as Isaac said you should be careful while implementing in production.

Hi Sainath and Santhosh I know about the possible problems, but i need to do that... So.. I did the following steps.. 1 - I registered the schmmgmt.dll 2 - I add the Active Directory Schema and ADSI Edit (Snap In) througt MMC. 3 - Inside the Active Directory Schema I create a Class (I configurated the Common Name; LDAP Display Member, Unique X50 Object ID). 4 - I added the atributes of the class. 5 - I extended the class 'user', in the tab RelationShip I selected the class I have created (as a auxilary class). 6 - To upgrade the servers, I used the Reload Schema Options. 7 - I registered the property page to became visible to the UI using the REGASM 8 - Inside the ADSI Edit to show the property page inside the UI I configured the option 'Connect To' to 'Select a well known naming context'. 9 - In the Configuration -> Display Specifiers ->409 in the 'user-display' I put the code of my class (it's the number of the register of my COM) That's it... doing this steps I am able to extend a tab inside the user class, but it's only visible inside the server, outside, viewed by XP SO I can't see... I only see the default tabs at the AD... Angelo Mestriner