Summary
The globally available database that comprises much of the Windows 2000 Active Directory is fully extensible and is rife with possibilities for all kinds of applications. It can be modified and extended by tools available in the operating system or programmatically through COM interfaces and script. It is an interesting exercise because, although it is not demanding from a procedural point of view, doing it properly and for the right reasons can be somewhat abstract and nontrivial.
You can modify the schema in many ways. One way is to create a new attribute. This enables that attribute to be used by other classes to track information that is important to you.
You also can add classes. After a class has been added, instances of that class ...
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