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Want to know more about your users? Use AcctInfo to get extra AD information

September 17, 2007 4 Comments

AcctInfo gives you Active Directory properties at a glance.

AcctInfo is a dll file which is part of the free tools for the Windows 2003 resource kit, but can be used on 2003 or 2000 machines. It enables extended properties for the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) MMC snapin.

This is one of those tools which is really useful, if only you knew it was available. Then of course you have to get round to installing it on all the machines where you might need to use it. However, once you have started using it you will be very pleased that you bothered.

» Click here to see what AcctInfo can tell you, and how easy it is to use »

Filed under Active Directory, Utilities + Tools Tagged with acctinfo, Active Directory, ADUC, password expiry, reset password, user account

Using DSMod to update Active Directory

January 1, 2007 25 Comments

DSMOD foundation course 101

I originally wrote this as an email reply to a colleague’s question about updating many Active Directory objects in one go, and later thought I could write it up “tutorial style”. I still think the DSQuery, DSGet, DSMod functions are underused by even fairly knowledgeable administrators, so here is a beginner’s guide to getting the most of these tools.

This is intended to show the principles for changing many AD objects’ properties in one go. There are lots more clever things you could do with this – like a lot of command line stuff, the principles are very simple but can be strung together to very powerful end results with a bit of thought and a step-by-step logical approach.

Basically, DSMOD allows you to change many (not all) of the AD properties of an object, usually a user, computer or group. This tutorial discusses users specifically, but the principles extend to other objects. Read more of this post

Filed under Active Directory, Scripting Tagged with Active Directory, AD, command line, DSGet, DSMod, DSQuery, script, user account, user details, windows server

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