Please read and help if you can - AD Behaving Badly

[Ron]

Hi All,

The problem appears when using the find option when searching for a user or
computer from within Active Directory Users and Computers.

The user or computer is found and listed in the results pane of the window.
The problem is when you right click on that user (or any other user or
computer) there isn't a "Properties" option at the bottom of the associated
actions that can be taken with this user account (Rename, Delete etc are
still listed) and the "rename" option is the default action, so that when
the user account is double clicked the rename window and not the properties
window is displayed. However this slightly different if the searched for
item is a computer as the "delete" option becomes the default action.

The "properties" option was there until approx a week ago.

If you manually drill down in to the OU's and find the user (or any user or
computer) and then right click you will see all the usual options including
the properties option which is the default, so it would appear that this
only happens within the find window !
Any ideas how or why this has happened and can it be fixed ?

Cheers

 

[Guest]

Try installing ADMINPAK on some workstation PC and see "Properties" option
appears. You may also try re-registering dsadmin.dll.

 

[Ron]

I have been investigating this problem some more and it would seem that the
"properties" option does appear when you right click a user, but only after
a few minutes ! So if you search on Jones the names are listed but the
"properties" option is not there, leave the find window open and wait 2 or 3
minutes and right click again the properties option is there and then you
can do as many searches as you like without a problem, you can even close
the console, re-open the console and search as much as you like without a
problem.

The problem only occurs again when you actually log off the server, when you
log in and search again you must wait that 2 or 3 minutes.

Does anybody know why this is happening, it's as if it is off verifying your
credentials or something ?

Cheers