How to add custom attributes to AD

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ADWINDOWS

Pre-requisites

  1. Make sure you have schema admin rights

Steps

  1. Go to mmc > active directory schema.
    • In the Active Directory Schema administrative tool, do a right-click on Attributes and then select Create Attribute…
    • Click on Continue (The warning that is displayed is to inform that the creation of a new Active Directory attribute is not a reversible operation and that it cannot be removed once done)

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