Active Directory Users and Computers – WITH Exchange Tabs on a Vista Box

I read this in WServerNews and thought it was a great tip
that I wanted to remember.

 

You can install the Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools
Pack on a Vista-based computer to manage ADUC (Active Directory Users and
Computers). You can currently get this from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e487f885-f0c7-436a-a392-25793a25bad7&DisplayLang=en
or simply use a Windows Server 2003 SP1 CD. ENSURE that you right-click on this
file and select “Run as Administrator” when installing so
everything gets registered correctly. If not you should go here to resolve http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/930056.

 

Now for the cool part…to add the Exchange tabs in
ADUC. After installing go to a machine that already has the Exchange Admin Pack
installed and copy the following files into your c:windowssystem32 directory
of your Vista box.

 

ADDRESS.DLL (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin
folder of our Exchange server)
ESCPRINT.DLL (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin folder of our Exchange
server)
EXCHMEM.DLL (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin folder of our Exchange
server)
glblname.dll (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin folder of our Exchange
server)
maildsmx.dll (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin folder of our Exchange
server)
netui0.dll (I found in the windowssystem32 folder of our Exchange server)
netui1.dll (I found in the windowssystem32 folder of our Exchange server)
netui2.dll (I found in the windowssystem32 folder of our Exchange server)
PTTRACE.DLL (I found in the Program FilesExchsrvrbin folder of our Exchange
server)

Lastly, at an elevated command-prompt register maildsmx.dll
by typing regsvr32 /s c:windowssystem32maildsmx.dll

 

That’s it. Pretty sweet.