Active Directory Schema Attribute: ms-DS-Generation-Id

What is ms-DS-Generation-Id attribute in Active Directory

This attribute contains the VM generation ID (VM-GenerationID) of a virtual machine; applies to Windows Server 2012.

For more details about this attribute, please refer to this MS document.

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