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      Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:01 PM
       
       
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      Hi,

      How to find a new entry in Active Directory. I monitor the AD on daily basis. I can’t find which the new Entry in OU’s.

      Especially I faced more critical to find new computer object under Computers.

      Is there any way to find it.

      Regards,

      Mani S 

       

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    • Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:36 AM
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      Hi Mani_Admin,

       

      Thanks for your update

       

      Yes, this can be done by the search feature in Active Directory Explorer utility ,please following the workaround below to achieve your goal.

       

      ·         Open the utility and connect to your domain.

      ·         Navigate to the “Computers” container in left tree ,right click it and choose “Search Container”

      ·         In Search Container window, choose “computer” class.

      ·         Add two conditions to search

       

      Displayname  notempry

      whenCreated notempry

       

      ·         Click Search to show all the results .

      ·         Now you could get the newly joined computer by click “whenCreated” column in result .

      ·         Save the search by click “SAVE” botton, so that you could perform same search in future.

       

      Hope that’s helpful

       

      Tiger Li

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    • Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:16 PM
       
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      Hi Tiger Li,

      Thanks for your input. I will tried the Active Directory Explorer utility as mentioned above.

      It is very useful. I will abserver next one week and send feedback.

      Regards,

      Mani S

      • Marked As Answer by Mani_Admin Friday, August 27, 2010 4:06 PM
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    • Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:03 PM
       
       
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      Maybe this one helps.

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961564.aspx

      Also here on Richard Mueller's web site

       http://www.rlmueller.net/index.html

       

       

       

      Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]
       
    • Monday, August 23, 2010 6:01 AM
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      Hi Mani_Admin.

       

      Thanks for post here.

       

      LDAP search is the recommaned method to filter objects in Active Directory .

       

      Meanwhile here are some utilities for you to easily search and monitor Active Directory database .

       

      Active Directory Explorer v1.42

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

       

      Insight for Active Directory v1.01

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897539.aspx

       

      Hope that’s helpful.

       

      Tiger Li

       

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    • Monday, August 23, 2010 3:48 PM
       
       
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      Dear Frnds,

      Thanks for mail to me.

       You told about LDAP Search option along with AD.

      One computer object is added with domain today, that name should be dispalay under AD>Builin>computers.

      My qstn is how do I find which is newly joined computer?

      With regards,

      Mani S

       

       
    • Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:36 AM
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      Hi Mani_Admin,

       

      Thanks for your update

       

      Yes, this can be done by the search feature in Active Directory Explorer utility ,please following the workaround below to achieve your goal.

       

      ·         Open the utility and connect to your domain.

      ·         Navigate to the “Computers” container in left tree ,right click it and choose “Search Container”

      ·         In Search Container window, choose “computer” class.

      ·         Add two conditions to search

       

      Displayname  notempry

      whenCreated notempry

       

      ·         Click Search to show all the results .

      ·         Now you could get the newly joined computer by click “whenCreated” column in result .

      ·         Save the search by click “SAVE” botton, so that you could perform same search in future.

       

      Hope that’s helpful

       

      Tiger Li

      Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
       
    • Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:16 PM
       
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      Hi Tiger Li,

      Thanks for your input. I will tried the Active Directory Explorer utility as mentioned above.

      It is very useful. I will abserver next one week and send feedback.

      Regards,

      Mani S

      • Marked As Answer by Mani_Admin Friday, August 27, 2010 4:06 PM
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    • Friday, August 27, 2010 4:13 PM
       
       
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      Hi Tiger Li,

        The felt very good to work with ADexpolrer tool. It is very useful to me.

      But I face some issue with ADInsight, whnever I excute and Click open option, It goes to open some document.

      I don't know how to trace by using ADInsight..

      I hope you will helpme.

      Regards,

      Mani S

       
    • Monday, August 30, 2010 2:35 AM
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      Hi Mani_Admin,

       

      Thanks for your reply.

       

      Glad my reply is useful for you to solve this issue.

       

      For how to use ADinsight utility ,I suggest initiate a new post to sysinternal forum for further consultation.

       

      http://forum.sysinternals.com/sysinternals-utilities_forums_cat2.html

       

      Thanks.

       

      Tiger Li

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