Searching Active Directory

1. Right-click an empty space on your desktop

2. From the pop-up menu select New → Shortcut

3. The Create Shortcut dialog will open. In the 'Type the location of the item' field, enter

   %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow

   and click 'Next'

4. Give the short cut a more meaningful name than rundll32.exe e.g. 'AD Query'

5. Click Finish

6. Double click the newly-created shortcut to see the Find Users, Contacts, and Groups query tool

From a command prompt, try:

gpresult /r