Designer now allows you to compare the Identity Vault schema in Designer from your production environment. Designer also provides conflict resolution on an individual classes & attributes and allows you to view the differences between existing and new values when importing and deploying the schema. To bring up compare dialog Right-click on the Identity Vault object in either the Modeler view or in the Outline view.Select Live >Schema > Compare to bring up the Designer/eDirectory Schema Compare window.
Compare shows whether the classes/attributes are equal (no action is necessary) or unequal. If they are unequal, you can choose not to reconcile them, choose to update them in Designer, or choose to update them in eDirectory. If you choose to reconcile the differences between schema in Designer and eDirectory while in Compare, you won't need to run an Import or a Deploy.