Searching Active Directory
Although using ADAC to browse the hierarchy of containers within
Active Directory is one way of locating the objects you need to
administer, a more efficient method is to use the query-building
search and filtering capabilities that are built into ADAC. For
example, let’s say you are the Active Directory administrator for
Contoso Ltd. and the Human Resources department has informed you that
the user account for Marie Dubois needs to be disabled until further
notice. To do this, you might proceed as follows:
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Launch ADAC, and select the Overview page in either list or
tree view.
Type marie in the search box
in the Global Search tile:
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Select corp (local) as the scope for your search, and press
Enter.
The results of this query are shown in Figure 4. By
right-clicking the user object Marie Dubois and selecting Disable, you
can disable Marie’s account.
You can broaden or narrow your search by selecting one or more
navigation nodes. To do this, perform the following steps:
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Click the small triangle at the right of the Scope item on
the global search tile to display the Navigation Nodes
explorer:
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Select or deselect the nodes you want to include in your
query.
You can make your query more specific by including additional
search criteria. To do this, perform the following steps:
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Click the small caret icon (^) beneath the small triangle
referenced earlier. Doing this displays the Add Criteria
control.
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Click the Add Criteria control to display a list of criteria
you can add to your search:
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Select the criteria you want to add to your search, and
click Add.
