Installing AD Users and Computers Only

[Fred]

I have 30 administrators who need to use Active Directory Users and
Computers snap-in. I can instruct them to install the adminpak and it works
but the adminpak also installs a lot of utilities they don't need to see
like DNS, DHCP, and Sites and Services, etc. They don't have rights to any
of those tools but they still don't need to see it. I need a way to create
a MSI to install just Active Directory Users and Computers. Any help is
greatly appreciated.

Fred
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[Brendon Rogers]

Two suggestions:

- Create a transform (MST file) to apply to the adminpak.msi to customize
the install.
- Create a custom MMC- click Start, Run, MMC /a then go to Console, Add /
Remove Snap-in, click Add, then Active Directory Users and Computers.
Console, Save As. This will save your MMC as a .msc file. Simply distribute
this to your users.

 

[Curtis Sawin]

We used this approach. Specifically, we distributed the
following files:

dsadmin.dll
dsuiext.dll
dsuiwiz.dll
MSC file for AD Users & Computers
MSC file for Group Policy

The DLLs must be registered.

This allowed us to install a minimal amount of files to
enable us to create software package objects in Active
Directory.

Hope this helps!

Curtis Sawin

 

[Fred]

I'll try it. If I'm reading it right all I need in my case is dsadmin.dll
and a MSC for AD.

Thanks --- Fred