Recipe 10.10 Viewing a Class
10.10.1 Problem
You want to view the attributes of a class.
10.10.2 Solution
10.10.2.1 Using a graphical user interface
Open the Active Directory Schema snap-in.
In the left pane, click on the Classes folder.
In the right pane, double-click the class you want to view.
Click on each tab to view the available properties.
10.10.2.2 Using a command-line interface
In the following command, replace <ClassCommonName> with the common name (not LDAP display name) of the class you want to view:
> dsquery * cn=<ClassCommonName>,cn=schema,cn=configuration,<ForestRootDN> -scope[RETURN]
base -attr *
10.10.2.3 Using VBScript
' This code prints out the attributes for the specified class.
' Recipe 4.2 for the code for the DisplayAttributes( ) function.
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
' Set to the common name (not LDAP display dame)
' of the class you want to view.
strClassName = "<ClassCommonName>" ' e.g. user
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
set objClass = GetObject("LDAP://cn=" & strClassName & "," & _
objRootDSE.Get("schemaNamingContext"))
objClass.GetInfo
WScript.Echo "Properties for " & strClassName
DisplayAttributes(objClass.ADsPath)
10.10.3 Discussion
See Table 10-1 for a list of the important classSchema attributes and their descriptions.
10.10.4 See Also
Recipe 4.2 for viewing the attributes of an object
