In this article I will show you how the Windows Vista Active Directory search tool works.
I wish that I could have seen the look on my face the first time that someone at Microsoft told me that Vista was going to contain a special applet that would allow users to search the Active Directory. I was in utter horror. My initial thought turned to complex LDAP queries. The next thing that I thought of was all of the information within the Active Directory that users have no business accessing (things like SIDs, security groups, application assignments, etc.). Panic then gave way to wondering how I could disable this search feature in an effort to keep it out of the users' hands. Now that Vista is in beta testing though, I have had a first hand look at this tool and I can tell you that it is a very practical, useful, and non threatening tool.
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