Tools and methods to manage objects
As we saw before, there are different tools and methods we can use to manage Active Directory objects. When you install AD DS on a server, it will also enable access to these management tools. There are other vendors who build different Active Directory management tools as well. But in this chapter, we only will be using built-in tools on Windows Server systems.
Active Directory Administrative Center
The Active Directory Users and Computers MMC is the most commonly used tool to manage Active Directory environments. This tool is built in to the system from the early version of Active Directory and has continued to the latest. With AD DS 2008 R2, Microsoft introduced the Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), which is a built-in PowerShell command-line interface technology. It provides an enhanced GUI, which can be used to manage Active Directory objects in an efficient way. With AD DS 2012, the Microsoft introduced the PowerShell history viewer, which...
