Global Catalog

[Tom]

Is there any documentation that details what attributes
are NOT included in Global Catalog?

When doing a search for "Users, Contacts..." does the
search engine use Global Catalog or does it search the
entire AD?

Can you modify what attributes are included as part of
global catalog?

TIA.

Tom

 

[Bjoern Wolfgardt]

Hi,

you can look in the schema management mmc which properties are included in
the GC.
To access the schema management mmc you have to register the schmmgmt.dll
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechn
ol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/entserver/schmmgmt_install_snapin.asp

But you could also 'ask' your AD what is included. Therefore just look for
each attribute in the schema if the isMemberOfPartialAttributeSet is set to
true:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/ad/a
ttributes_included_in_the_global_catalog.asp

cu
Bjoern Wolfgardt