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Michael
Asked: 2013-05-03 07:21:23 +0800 CST

What is the best way to see objects attributes in Active Directory?

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I can not find how to see objects attributes in Active Directory in Microsoft Management Console (MMS). Please tell me if it is possible to do it in MMS. I found the Active Directory Explorer that show objects attributes: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx. Do you know better tools?

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I want to find a simple UI tool that allow browse objects attributes in Active Directory like using Active Directory Explorer:

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If you know LDAP browser that is better that Active Directory Explorer please let me know.

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  1. Best Answer

    The ADSIEDIT tool from the Windows Support Tools is a great tool to "explore" the AD. The LDP tool (which is an LDAP browser) will work, too. Any LDAP browser-- GUI or command-line-- will also work. Finally, if command-line tools are your thing take a look at Joe Richards' wonderful ADFIND tool.

    Edit:

    It's a bit unclear to me what you're looking for.

    It sort of looks like you're just wanting a big flat dump of the attributes associated with some subset of your Directory objects. If that's the case I'd strongly consider looking at Joe Richards' ADFIND. It's pretty easy to dump a subset of the Directory to an LDIF format text file which you can search / view in a very "flat" format.

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  2. Open ADUC, Select View from the menu and click "Detail". This should add a Attribute Editor tab to each object.

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