Unlike Windows 2000 Server and Win2K Advanced Server, Win2K Professional doesn't come with the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. Thus, domain and organizational unit (OU) administrators can't manage Active Directory (AD) users, groups, or computers.

If you want to manage users, groups, or computers in Win2K Pro, you need to add the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in. To do so, begin by copying the dsadmin.dll file from Win2K Server or Win2K AS to Win2K Pro. This file is in Win2K Server's or Win2K AS's \%systemroot%\system32 directory. After you copy the file, open a command-shell window, browse to the \%systemroot%\system32 directory, and enter

regsvr32 dsadmin.dll

Finally, start MMC and press Ctrl+M, then Alt+D. The Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in will appear in the resulting list.

—Fu Zheng
adam@sometips.com

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Reader Comments

I did this and it works great! I have a large campus and having two or three locations with this set up takes some of the legwork out of accounts managing. We don't use terminal services, so this is a great solution.

Lyle Alan Dodd- February 21, 2004

This iw simply great . Thanks a lot for the help.

Arun- April 16, 2004

Hi I did this and its work perfectelly great but can somone also tell me please what if one tried to used or change domain passwords and it says insufficient right then what to do.. Thanks

Max- May 13, 2004

This fix doesnt work for Windows XP. Do you have one thw does work for Windows XP?

Tonny- May 25, 2004

Use windows 2003 cd and find the file called adminpak.msi under i386 folder. You will be amazed what you can do in XP fo AD

use adminpak.msi in windwos 2003 cd unde i386. This will fix all

amad- June 11, 2004

This is good . It works well

Anonymous User- February 25, 2005

May fix my problem!

urbanw- May 04, 2006

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