Removing Unity schema from AD

[michael_cole]

Quick question --

Recently moved a customer from Unity 5.x to Connections using the same server.  Did not run the 'Uninstall Unity Tool' before loading Connections onto the box, so we're now left with the old Unity schema left behind in AD that I believe the tool would have completely removed.  Would running the Uninstall tool directly on the AD server still accomplish this?

Thanks

[Tommer Catlin]

Id probably shy away from removing the Unity AD schemes.  They really do not do anything in AD anyways other than add a few fields to LDAP.   It should not harm AD leaving these in there.   Messing the AD schema extensions is probably not a good idea.   The tool does not remove the schema.

You would have to use ADSIEDIT to possibly remove any of the Cisco Unity extensions in AD.

[David Hailey]

No, this tool does not remove any schema extensions.  It removes the Unity application and can remove associated objects but that's it.  I'm not aware of any clean way to "remove" or "uninstall" extended schema.  Schema extension is generally considered a one-way street.  As Tommer said, there shouldn't be any harm in leaving things as-is.

Hailey

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[Aaron Harrison]

Hi All

From my Microsoft consulting days I can tell you that there is no way to remove schema extensions. This applies to any schema extensions - SMS, Unity, things you add yourself...

Best you could do was disable attributes in some way (if I recall correctly).. but I wouldn't get into that. If the customer is really keen on cleanup you could potentially clear out the Unity related properties.

Regards

Aaron

[David Hailey]

Exactly. There is no way (that I know of ... outside of rebuilding AD fresh) to delete extended schema. You can potentially disable attributes but I would probably steer away from too much of that.

Hailey

[michael_cole]

Thanks for the responses...