Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

7-5: Creating Administrative Tools to Manage Unused and Custom Attributes

Solution overview

Type of solution	Scripts
Features and tools	VBScript, HTAs, taskpad tasks, display modifiers
Solution summary	Create custom administrative tools to manage user attributes that Microsoft does not expose or that you have added to the schema.
Benefits	Manageability of custom attributes

Introduction

In solutions throughout this resource kit, I've provided scripts and HTAs that manage custom properties. In this solution, I guide you through the creation of a script and an HTA that enables you to access one or more properties of a user object. This functionality allows you to expose the unused and custom attributes discussed in the previous solution. If you are somewhat ...