Active Directory Users And Computers - Valuable For All Dbas

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If you are currently working as a DBA, especially on the Active Directory area, ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) is a valuable tool for you. It is something that you just cannot afford to miss as a database administrator. As its name suggests, ADUC is vital because it offers greater visibility into each and every computer and user active within the domain. Besides, the tool also comes handy for the DBAs when they want to know in detail about other things, such as contacts, groups, group policy objects, and organizational unit structures, within the domain.

There are a number of reasons why ADUC is a valuable tool for all the database administrators. Some of its main benefits are as follows -

- After installing the Active Directory Users and Computers tool on your system, you can easily find out the groups to which a particular member belongs to within the domain.

- Besides, ADUC also allows you to view details of all the users within a group. You can also view a list of the group members who are allowed to login to your SQL Server through their Windows group login Id.

- By assessing the ...
... group nesting from every direction using ADUC, you can also view the various ways in which a user from a particular group has access to your SQL Server.

- In addition, ADUC also allows you to cross-check the user account details corresponding to each user in the domain. For instance, if a user named 'John' claims to have the account number 'XYZ123', you can use the ADUC functions to check if the account XYZ123 actually corresponds to John or not.

If you are working as a DBA (Database Administrator), you need not go to the security or system architects and administrators to find answers to each and every question you have. The aforementioned features of ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) make it possible for you to get all the required information very easily, without any outside help. This is simply because all the users in different groups within the domain have their basic information saved throughout the Active Directory by default. That is, as the basic read information of all the users in the domain is available by default in the AD, you can access it without causing any security issue. In this way, you can avoid going to the security administrators every now and then, and thus, save a lot of time and effort.

So, where do you get this invaluable ADUC tool from? Well, if you are a Windows XP user, you can simply install the 'AdminPak' of Windows Server 2003 from the official Microsoft website. Similarly, if you have Windows 7 on your system, you may install the Windows 7 Remote Server Admin Tools from the Microsoft official website. In case you are using Windows Vista, you may install the Windows Vista Remote Server Admin Tools from the official Microsoft website to get Active Directory Users and Computers function on your system.

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