LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files provide a mechanism for importing schema definitions into an AD LDS instance. You ...

LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files provide a mechanism for importing schema definitions into an AD LDS instance. You can use LDIF files to transfer objects between Active Directory Domain Services and AD LDS partitions. You can import one of several Microsoft-supplied LDIF files to create user or proxy objects, and you can create LDIF files containing object definitions exported from other LDAP-compliant directories.