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January 27, 2004 12:00 AM

Manage Active Directory in Windows 2000 Professional

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Unlike Windows 2000 Server and Win2K Advanced Server, Win2K Professional doesn't come with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. Thus, domain and organizational unit (OU) administrators can't manage Active Directory (AD) users, groups, or computers.

If you want to manage users, groups, or computers in Win2K Pro, you need to add the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. To do so, begin by copying the dsadmin.dll file from Win2K Server or Win2K AS to Win2K Pro. This file is in Win2K Server's or Win2K AS's \%systemroot%\system32 directory. After you copy the file, open a command-shell window, browse to the \%systemroot%\system32 directory, and enter

regsvr32 dsadmin.dll

Finally, start MMC and press Ctrl+M, then Alt+D. The Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in will appear in the resulting list.

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Comments
  • Urban
    6 years ago
    May 04, 2006

    May fix my problem!

  • Anonymous User
    7 years ago
    Feb 25, 2005

    This is good . It works well

  • amad
    8 years ago
    Jun 11, 2004

    Use windows 2003 cd and find the file called adminpak.msi under i386 folder. You will be amazed what you can do in XP fo AD


    use adminpak.msi in windwos 2003 cd unde i386.
    This will fix all

  • tonny
    8 years ago
    May 25, 2004

    This fix doesnt work for Windows XP. Do you have one thw does work for Windows XP?

  • Max
    8 years ago
    May 13, 2004

    Hi
    I did this and its work perfectelly great but can somone also tell me please what if one tried to used or change domain passwords and it says insufficient right then what to do..
    Thanks

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