The process to install ADUC for Windand above differs from the process for Windand below. How to Install Active Directory Users and Computers

Advanced feature settings that help to manage the LostAndFound container, NTDS Quotas, Program Data, and System information.

Deal with FSMO roles such as RID master, PDC Emulator and Infrastructure master.

Define advanced security and auditing in AD.

Delegate permissions to users to manage Group Policy.

Create Organizational Units (OU), move users and computers in and around them, and delete OUs.

Create and manage AD objects, such as users, computers, groups, and contacts, along with their attributes.

Some of the tasks an administrator can perform with the help of this MMC snap-in are as follows: Doing the snapshot takes hours and I'm afraid that the infrastructure guys won't like me doing entire snapshots on a regular basis.Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a common tool used by administrators to carry out daily tasks and much more in Active Directory AD. I'm just able to take a snapshot of the whole database in a machine-readable format. Unfortunately I'm unable to export the data to a human readable format.

Some days ago I found Active Directory explorer from Sysinternals that allows me to browse through Active Directory, and I found all the information that I need there (username, real name, date when it was created, privileges, company, etc.). I'm trying to find a way to automatically update the database as much as possible, but the IT infrastructure guys doesn't give me enough privileges to use Active Directory in order to dump the users, nor they have the time to give me the information that I need. I have to take care of a database with all the users, computers, etc. I work in the IT support department of a branch of a huge company.

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