We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites. In this guide, we will talk about a feature available only in Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise versions: It's Active Directory Users and Computers. This feature is originally a part of Windows Server's Administrative Tools, but Microsoft added it to the Pro and Enterprise versions of Windows to give users the ability to control things in the network / domain from any computer on the network, not just from the server. The things that are made possible with this feature include: (the ability to…) add users, computers, create groups and control your shared devices like printers from any computer on the domain. Quote from Microsoft's website. So, how do we enable this? Step I: Download and Install RSAT – Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Go to, select your language and click Download. (You can also check the system requirements before doing this).
Enabling Advanced Features in ADUC Right-click the organizational unit (OU) where user accounts are located, and go to Properties > Security > Advanced > SELF > Edit. ADUC showing the Permissions tab for a user's OU Change to the Properties tab, scroll down, and tick Allow for the Read and Write street attribute. ( Microsoft uses the "st" attribute to store and display the street address. ) Permitting SELF to change the street attribute Confirm all open windows by clicking OK and close ADUC. VBScript to store the computer name in the user object ^ Open Notepad or another text editor of your choice and place the following lines of code into it. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 ' ********************************************************************** ' ' VBScript: ' ' Author: Ruben ' Date: 2018 -12 -21 ' Version: 1 ' ' Description: ' Sets the "street" attribute to the computer name ' ' Attention: ' This VB script comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details ' see gnu -gpl.
vbs 5 specifies the order; if already in use, choose another number IT: Show the currently logged-on computer; the text appears in the context menu mfst is the name of this domain ADUCExtensions is a folder we need to be create Confirm the dialog boxes and close ADSIEDIT. Place a subfolder in netlogon ^ This ensure that the script has domain-wide distribution. Log on to a domain controller, navigate to the netlogon share, and create a folder named ADUCExtensions. Keep the permissions but ensure that nobody except administrators can change the folder content. VBScript to retrieve the computer name ^ The script below retrieves the computer name from the selected user object. Open Notepad or another text editor of your choice and place the following lines of code into it. Name the file and store it in the previously created folder ADUCExtensions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 ' ********************************************************************** ' ' VBScript: ' ' Author: Ruben ' Date: 2018 -12 -26 ' Version: 1 ' ' Description: ' This script displays some additional user information by receiving ' the input from right-clicking a user object in ADUC. '
' Attention: ' This VB script comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details ' see gnu-gpl. This is free software, and you are welcome ' to redistribute it under certain conditions; see gnu -gpl for details. '
Note that the server machine must be always online, you will just be controlling it remotely but that's impossible to do that if the server computer is shut down. Now, what can you exactly do using Active Directory users and Computer? If you're using the server's administrator user, you'll be able to change all the domain settings. You'll be able to add and modify users, groups, printers …etc. If you're using a standard domain user, you'll be able to explore, see all the settings, all users and computers and other devices on the domain, but you won't be able to change most of them (If you right-click in the domain area, you will not be able to see the New option used to create new components). We can fix this using the section 'Usage Case I: Delegate Control' below. How to use Active Directory Users and Computers? Usage Case I: Delegate Control Assuming that you have admin privileges and you want to delegate another user to control the domain (to be as powerful as the administrator), this is how: Usage Case II: Add a new user to the domain Usage Case III: Add a new group Creating groups helps you to organize your domain in a better way, every bunch of users may have their custom permissions, maybe some access to a specific drive or printer too.
The description reads: Active Directory Domain Services Snap-Ins and Command-Line tools includes Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Domains and Trusts, Active Directory Sites and Services, and other snap-ins and command-line tools for remotely managing Active Directory domain controllers. You can also select other tools you want like the Active Directory Administrative Center but to specifically get just Active Directory Users and Computers, check the box in front of AD DS Snap-Ins and Command-Line Tools. Confirm your selections and let the install do its work. Once the installation completes, you will see 'Active Directory Users and Computers' and 'Group Policy Management Console' on the Start Screen. You can also find them under the Administrative Tools folder should you want to copy a shortcut to your desktop. Note: using the GPMC from Server 2012 gives you access to New Windows 8 and Server 2012 Group Policies.
Define how you would like your Taskpad to be formatted, then click "Next" Define whether or not the Taskpad View should be associated to other tree items if they contain matching computer objects or independently and select "Next" Enter a name for the Taskpad View that will be shown within the console for that particular OU and select "Next". Finally, ensure "Add new tasks to this taskpad after the wizard closes" is checked and click the "Finish" button. Step 4 – Create a New Task for your Taskpad View The New Task Wizard should open automatically. If it doesn't open automatically, right-click on the OU you created the new Taskpad View on and select "Edit Taskpad View", select the "Tasks" tab, and click on the "New" button to launch the wizard. Once the New Task Wizard opens, select "Next". Here's where the real fun begins and I encourage you to explore all the things that can be done. In this example, I will create a very simple task that will run a batch script that will PING a computer object.
Frequently, I find myself and other IT support personnel need to quickly gain access to remote systems, run scripts against remote systems, or remote controlling computers for troubleshooting purposes. I typically head straight to the command line or run the related Active Directory administration tool directly; however, if the task needs to happen against several systems, I will code-up or download a script and customize it to do what I need it to do. But how can you add some quick functionally (specifically more GUI driven extensibility) to ADUC to make life easier for yourself or to delegate responsibilities to other IT support techs? Welcome to Active Directory TaskPads, a little known feature available to us server administrators! AD TaskPads have been around since Windows Server 2000. I haven't used them very much over the years, but recently, I wanted to add some functionality on one of my client's network for easier remote management. Taskpad View example inside Active Directory Users and Computers console For security purposes and better performance (especially for RDP/VNC remote access) I would recommend installing Microsoft's Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) tools directly on your workstation to remotely administer Active Directory objects and to perform daily tasks eliminating the need to physically logon to your production servers.
Navigate to User Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts (Logon/Logoff) > Logon. Navigating to the script storage in GPMC Copy the script into the folder revealed by clicking on Show Files. Confirm the open windows and close the GPO configuration. After refreshing, the GPO will look like the picture below. GPMC showing the GPO containing the script Close GPMC. Customizing the ADUC user context menu ^ The Admin-Context-Menu attribute in Active Directory allows placing custom entries in the context menu of computers, users, groups and other objects in ADUC. It is in the Configuration partition of Active Directory and requires modifying Enterprise Admin permissions. Open as an enterprise admin, navigate to Configuration > CN=Configuration, CN=DisplaySpecifiers > CN=409 > CN=user-Display, and choose Properties: ADSI showing display properties for the user object Select adminContextMenu, click Edit, and add the following line: 5, IT: Show currently logged -on computer, \ \ nwtraders. msft \ netlogon \ ADUCExtensions \ AD_Get-UserInfos.
Choose the suitable download for you: Download WS_1709 RSAT to manage Windows Server version 1709 (x64 for 64-bit machines and x86 for 32-bit machines). Download RSAT_WS2016 to manage a previous versions of Windows Server. If you have problems identifying which version are you running, click here to take a look at this guide, you'll be able to know all about the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit ones and the compatibility of each. After restarting, you may need to enable the feature manually. If you're using Windows 8, 8. 1 or 10 it should be automatically enabled – so you can skip to step III. But if you're having problems or you want to make sure that it's on, pass through step II. Step II: Enable the Remote Server Administration Tools Step III: Use Active Directory Users and Computers Now that you have it installed operating it is very simple: just type active directory in your start menu and select Active Directory Users and Computers and there you are – you can now control the domain from your regular non-server computer.
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