LOL. If I do GUI, I will try hard to make it as flexible and functional as my command line tools. I have some MCS friends who bug me about making a GUI version of adfind every time I see them.
Until I started working a lot with Exchange I had no use for a GUI for AD. Once I started playing with Exchange I found myself pulling out LDP and using that occasionally due to all of those extremely nasty DNs in the config container related to Exchange. It was extremely obvious when I was spinning up on the Exchange stuff that the MS Exchange people really didn't know what the command line was. If they were aware of it and used it, I think the structures would all look considerably different. In general when I look at a customers AD for the first time I can get a decent impression on whether they are GUI admins or CLI admins based on the layout and "feel" of the directory. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thommes, Michael M. Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes Hi Jorge, Hey, thanks for pointing that out! It seems a little "backdoorish" but it'll work. Any idea why the operator "contains" is not available? Mike Thommes Ps. joe, don't ever go GUI! LOL! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 9:02 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes I'm not sure if I understand what you say, but if you define a query in the Saved Queries node and run it, you are able to export the result to a textfile by right-clicking the query and selecting 'Export List' Cheers #JORGE# ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter Johnson Sent: Thu 8/4/2005 3:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes If we are going to include gripes with the tools how about this one? I might be opening myself up to abuse due to not knowing how to do something but here we go :) :) You can create saved queries in ADUC but the doesn't seem to be a way to export the result of the query from the pop up windows. This would be quite useful even if not as flexible as Joe's amazing utilities. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruston, Neil Sent: 04 August 2005 12:53 To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes In all fairness, all reg keys can be managed via ADM templates, which can be custom crafted. I for one, have done this from JDP times onward, esp when configuring 3rd party apps. However, it would be far more elegant if more (Windows) settings were exposed via the out of the box ADM files and hopefully, one day, vendors will supply ADM files for their products too. Deleting and undeleting features are definitely well over due. neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CC/DNA) Sent: 04 August 2005 11:37 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Biggest AD Gripes I am not a big fan of having to use the registry editor to set fixed RPC ports. It would be nice if during the DCPROMO process you could set the ports with in the GUI or Script. Recently I have been using GPO's to make the settings changes. A nicer tool for deleting orphan/linger objects would be nice. 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