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

Checking your own group memberships

From a command prompt, try: 

gpresult /r