Mastering Windows Group Policy

OUs inside ADUC

You can launch ADUC in the same ways that you launch GPMC, through the Start menu or via Server Manager's Tools menu. ADUC is also included in the RSAT tools, so if you have taken the steps to install those on your workstation, this console already exists there as well. Most commonly, I find myself launching these management consoles via Command Prompt, because I tend to always have one up and running on my machine. You are familiar with GPMC.MSC in order to launch the GPMC, but is there a similar command-line shortcut for ADUC? Yes, though you may have to type it in a few times before it gets committed to memory because it's not the most intuitively named MSC:

DSA.MSC—this is the MMC shortcut command that you can launch from ...