The old tabs are down there in the extensions section still, if you need them: The important stuff is right up front.įor a real-world example of how this does not suck, see this article.

Once you open one of those users, you don't have to dig through a dozen tabs for commonly used attributes. Even if I had not pinned that OU, I'd still get it free if I kept returning to it: Notice another thing here - ADAC keeps the last three areas I visited in the recent view list under that domain. Nice! It even preserves the visual hierarchy for me. I can instead pin the areas I plan to visit that week for a project: For example, rather than clicking all the way into this hierarchy each time: It's even more useful if I use many deeply nested OU structures in the domain. This pins that container in the navigation pane so that I don’t have to click around next time. In my case here, the Users container is an obvious choice: … instead, consider using navigation nodes to add areas you are frequently accessing. So rather than heading to the Tree View tab right away to start drilling down, like this: It's also has short-term memory loss - every time you restart it you have to set it up all over again.ĪDAC realizes that you probably stick to a few areas most of the time. ADUC wants to click everywhere, expanding trees of data. Don’t try to make ADAC into AD Users and Computers simply because that's what you’re used to. The first lesson is 'do not fight the interface'. To make things interesting, I am using one of my more complex forests where I test the ADRAP tools.įire up DSAC.EXE and follow along. Since this is me, I'll also show you how to work around some ADAC limitations - this isn’t a sales pitch.

I am going to demo as much as possible, so I hope you have some bandwidth this month, oppressed serfs Canucks and Aussies. If you're never used this utility, make sure you review the requirements and if you don't have any Windows Server 2008 R2 DCs, install the AD Management Gateway and its updates on at least one of your older DCs in each domain. Today I run through some of the hidden coolness that ADAC brings to the table as well as techniques that make using it easier. I've talked previously about using ADAC as a replacement for acctinfo.dll. Then we continued referencing it in all our documentation.Īnd people say we're a marketing company. Wait, I mean we told no one and for good measure, we left the old AD Users and Computers tool in-place. We introduced the AD Administrative Center in Windows Server 2008 R2 to much fanfare.

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