Browsing Active Directory?

[blmuzzy]

Is there an [easy] way to present a graphical view of Active Directory hierarchy, like ADUC does or the way AskFilename() does, such that a user could mouse or cursor to the desired level and select an object?

thanks!
Bob

[Deana]

Sorry no built in Active Directory Browser function available in WinBatch. Have you considered using a WIL Dialog Itembox control?
Anyone here have suggestions on how this might be accomplished using WinBatch?

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/tsleft.web+WIL~Extenders/ADSI+Display~list~of~OUs.txt

[td]

Is there an [easy] way to present a graphical view of Active Directory hierarchy, like ADUC does or the way AskFilename() does, such that a user could mouse or cursor to the desired level and select an object?

thanks!
Bob

There are numerous free tools with a UI available for download including the following tool provided by MSFT's SystemInternals group

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

[blmuzzy]

Deana, That's basically what I did, a series of AskItemList dialogs drilling further down from the start OU to Computers or Groups, then another AskItemList for sub OUs under those, etc.  Navigating a single structure would be easier for the user.

[blmuzzy]

Td, thanks for the suggestion.  I hadn't used  Sysinternals AD Explorer before.  Closely resembles adsiedit.  I'll look for others you suggested because I want to control the start point of the search vs the domain root, and I want to be able to drill into a container, then return the contents in a .txt file.  My need was to be able to, say, take the 100 members of a group and put them in some other document.  ADUC doesn't export to a file in a convenient manner and when the number is significant, doing so manually isn't practical.