Andrew/Tridge,

   To close the loop on this request, we just made the schemas for Windows 
Server 2008 R2 available to public on Microsoft Download site 
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?FamilyID=da2fc73a-3d35-484c-9bea-f023dcba7275).
   This information is also added to the beginning of MS-ADA1,MS-ADA2 and 
MS-ADA3 as follows:

  "Note The object definitions in this document are also available for download 
in LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) at the following location: 
[MSFT-ADSCHEMA]."

Thanks!

Hongwei


-----Original Message-----
From: Hongwei Sun 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:36 PM
To: Andrew Bartlett
Cc: MSSolve Case Email; cifs-proto...@samba.org; Bill Wesse
Subject: RE: [cifs-protocol] [REG:110062452298172] Re: Text-file Schema for all 
of 2000-2008R2

Andrew,

  We have completed the process to use tools to automatically extract the  
Windows server 2008R2 schema from the schema documents and validate it against 
a Windows DC implementation.  The schema file includes a EULA.  Please review 
it and provide feedback.  Although this is a private delivery, we are working 
to create a standard way to publicly publish the schema and we will provide 
further updates when we have finalized this plan.

Thanks!

Hongwei

-----Original Message-----
From: cifs-protocol-boun...@cifs.org [mailto:cifs-protocol-boun...@cifs.org] On 
Behalf Of Andrew Bartlett
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:46 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help
Cc: MSSolve Case Email; cifs-proto...@samba.org; Bill Wesse
Subject: Re: [cifs-protocol] [REG:110062452298172] Re: Text-file Schema for all 
of 2000-2008R2

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:43 +0000, Bill Wesse wrote:
> Resending the DumpSchema.cmd(.txt) file; I broke the earlier one during an 
> edit (deleted a label ':Perform'). Sorry.

Dochelp.

I was working on this with Bill, but I need to bump this a long a little, and 
to clarify things a bit more:

It is great having commands to dump the schema - we can write such commands 
easily, and use those to confirm that the schema we supply to our users is 
correct.  Indeed, such commands have shown that we have not been supplied 
correct schema in the past.

However, what I need isn't tools to extract schema from AD servers, but the 
actual schema, provided by Microsoft to us under the agreed licence.
This makes it unambiguous that we can redistribute the result. 

Therefore, we do require the schema from the WSPP documentation, we require it 
in a format that is suitable for use in creation of an interoperable 
implementation, we need is under the licence, and we require that it is 100% 
correct. 

If we cannot get those assurances, we have two problems:  We waste an 
inordinate amount of time fixing bugs that should never have occurred (surely 
the docs were generated with tools such as you supplied in your mail), and we 
loose confidence that any update to the schema or a new revision is correct. 

Have you had any luck securing those assurances from the product group?
It seems to have taken quite some time, for something that should be nothing 
more than providing an automated extract. 

Thankyou, 

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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