How to open dialog for Active Directory search

Project I am working right now on requires from me to periodically search for something in AD... How to do it (dont expect anything new ;)):

Standart way:

  • Start -> Run
  • Hit enter
  • Type mmc
  • Hit enter
  • Click file, select Add\Remove Snap-in
  • Click Add
  • Click on Active Directory Users and Computers
  • Click Close
  • Click OK
  • Expand Active Directory Users and Computers
  • Right-click on domain
  • Select Find
  • Type your object name
  • Click on Find now

My modified way to achieve it was to use following procedure:

  • Hit Winkey + R
  • Type dsa.msc
  • Hit enter
  • Hit Ctrl+M
  • Hit End
  • Hit <that small button opposite winkey that shows context menu>
  • Hit "i"
  • Type object name
  • Hit enter

Nothing really special, hehe :) Just wanted to make you more curious about my final result ;)

 So after going through all this again and again, I decided to make some use out of my favourite QLiner - so I mapped following line to one of buttons:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe dsquery.dll,OpenQueryWindow

 Pretty simple, heh? This command line just shows AD search dialog.

Published Thu, Feb 21 2008 13:21 by martin
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