Schema Extenstions

[RichieRich]

I want to add an AD attribute to the USER's CLASS of "IT Skills" that people
have in my company.
This way users can populate AD using a webpage I will create with a
drop-down list of IT skills.

Does anyone have some good resources where i should get started on this.?

I have already added the various tabs and fields to my Exchange GAL, and now
need to extend the schema and use ADSI to populate the information to AD.
Then simply modify the GAL classes to point the "IT-SKILLS" page to this new
attribute in AD.


Does this sound doable?

thanks in advance.

RR

 

[Jimmy Andersson [MVP]]

Are you talking about extending the Schema? If so, take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...adschema/adschema/active_directory_schema.asp
and do a search on extending the schema.
If you want to extend the ADUC you should take a look at Step-by-Step Guide
to Using Active Directory Schema and Display Specifiers:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/adschemasteps.asp.

Regards,
/Jimmy

 

[RichieRich]

The only thing about that article as oppposed to my case is I want to use
the schema extension to add various Skill Sets that an employee has. For
example, one employee might have VB, C++, and java skills, another might
have Unix Admin, Java Programming, and VB. I want users to be able to see
those multiple skills in the GAL, to view what skills various users have. I
will create some web page that uses ADSI Puts to populate those attributes,
simply delegating SELF to write to thos newly created values. I think that
there will be multiple attributes under the class, "skills" to handle many
skills that users will choose from.

does this seem like the correct methodology to take here?