Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide(c) Automating System Administration 2003

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide

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Learning to automate Active Directory user operations begins with a basic understanding of each type of Active Directory object, each object s attributes, and the tasks commonly associated with each type of object.

A user account object, like all objects in Active Directory, is derived from a class. A class can be thought of as a template that defines what an object can or must contain. Just as a word processing template defines the content of a document created from it, a class defines the content of an object created from it.