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for the workstation support details on these
tools. When working with Windows 2000, you basically receive support using ADSIEdit,
DSQuery, and NTDSUtil. All of the other tools discussed in this chapter require a Windows 2003
or Windows Server 2008 (graphical or Server Core version) setup, access to a Windows 2003 or
Windows Server 2008 machine, or that you download and install the Active Directory tools supplied
with Windows 2003 or Windows Server 2008.
Because of everything it does, Active Directory is quite complex. You don??™t want to make a mistake
when editing it, which means performing actions consistently. Microsoft provides a number
of utilities to help you maintain Active Directory. This chapter doesn??™t discuss the graphical utilities,
but you??™ll actually find that the command line utilities are more powerful and provide better
access to Active Directory than the graphical utilities in most cases. More importantly, the command
line utilities in this chapter let you script Active Directory actions so that you can perform a number
of tasks using simple command line entries that are difficult to use incorrectly.
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