Name
find
Synopsis
Find users, contacts, groups, computers, printers, shared folders, or organizational units in Active Directory, or perform a custom search of Active Directory.
Procedures
This procedure illustrates how an administrator can search Active Directory for a specific object or attribute (ordinary users search Active Directory differently by using Start → Search instead):
Open the Active Directory Users and Computers console, and select a domain or organizational unit (OU) from which to begin your search. If you select Entire Directory, then the entire global catalog is searched using your query.
Use Action → Find to open the Find Users, Contacts, and Groups dialog box.
Specify what type of objects to find:
Users, Contacts, and Groups Computers Printers Shared Folders Organizational Units Custom search Broaden the starting point for your search by selecting:
Entire directory Local domain or any parent domain in the domain tree The OU selected above Formulate a search query using any or all of the available tabs:
The first tab allows you to formulate simple queries using basic attributes for the type of object specified, such as a user’s name, the role of a computer, the location of a printer, and so on.
The Features tab (printers only) provides additional search attributes.
The Advanced tab lets you search using pattern-matching on any combination of attributes for the selected type of directory object. Specify a field (attribute) to search on, a condition, and a value to search for. ...
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