Active Directory Administrative Center

While it is critical to understand and be familiar with the tools we have looked at so far that help us manage Active Directory, you can tell that their aesthetics are a bit dated. The Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), on the other hand, has a much more streamlined interface that looks and feels like the newer Server Manager that we are all becoming more and more comfortable with. Many of the functions available within the ADAC accomplish the same things that we can do through the other tools already, but it pulls these functions into a more structured interface that brings some of the most commonly utilized functions up to the surface and makes them easier to run.

One great example is right on the landing page of ADAC. A common helpdesk task in any network is the resetting of passwords for user accounts. Whether the user forgot their password, changed it recently and mistyped it, or you are resetting a password during some other...