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Each Active Directory service object has attributes associated with it that define
particular characteristics of the object.
The classes of objects in the Active Directory service database as well as each
object’s attributes are defined in the Active Directory service schema. In other
words, the schema contains definitions for each class object available in Active
Directory service. The following are examples of the Active Directory service class
objects:
• User
• Group
• Organizational Unit
• DnsZone
• DnsNode
In DS integrated DNS, each DNS zone becomes an Active Directory service
container object (DnsZone). The DnsZone object will contain a DnsNode leaf object
for every unique name within that zone. The DnsNode object will have a DnsRecord
multi-valued attribute with an instance of a value for every record associated with
the object’s name.
In the screen shot above, the object mail.mydomain.microsoft.com may have the A
attribute containing the IP address for mail.mydomain.microsoft.com. and the MX
attribute containing the mail exchange server information for
mail.mydomain.microsoft.com.
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