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administration Tools for active Directory ❘ OC129
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it has a manager , department , and company , and a user has extra attributes needed to log on to a system.
adminisTraTion Tools for aCTiVe direCTory
Looking into some of the Active Directory administration tools can help to give you an idea of Active
Directory, what data is in there, and what can be done programmatically.
The system administrator has many tools to enter new data, update data, and confi gure Active Directory:
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T h e Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap - in is used to enter new users and update user
data.
T h e Active Directory Sites and Services MMC snap - in is used to confi gure sites in a domain and for
replication between these sites.
T h e Active Directory Domains and Trusts MMC snap - in can be used to build up a trust relationship
between domains in a tree.
ADSI Edit is the editor for Active Directory, where every object can be viewed and edited.
To run these tools on Windows 7, you need to install Windows 7 Remote
Administration Tools. For other Windows versions, there are also separate downloads
for these system management tools.
The following sections get into the functionality of the tools Active Directory Users and Computers and
ADSI Edit because these tools are important in regard to creating applications using Active Directory.
active directory users and Computers
The Active Directory Users and Computers snap - in is the tool that system administrators use to manage
users. Select Start ➪ Administrative ➪ Tools ➪ Active Directory Users and Computers to start this program
(see Figure 52 - 4).
figure 52-4
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