MMC, Customizing Active Directory Users and Computers

[Randel J. Bennett]

We created a custom Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in for our
various office managers to reset passwords and move users between groups
within their specific Org Units. We followed the steps on "How to Create
Custom MMC Snap-in Tools Using Microsoft Management Console" in the kb
article Q230263. When we deployed the custom MMC to the office managers
Windows 2000 Pro system and run it, a registry key error is returned.

Does anyone know, without having to install the entire ADMINPAK, how to make
this work?

[Andy Bolstridge]

which registry key?....

perhaps they do not have the necessary rights to their local pcs - adding a
registry value to the HLKM hive requires admin or power user rights. Other
keys may require admin rights.

Andy.

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[Randel J. Bennett]

What a week! We really over thought this problem. Thank you for asking the
right question to bring us back to the basics.

It wasn't a rights issue, but when you asked, "which registry key?", I had
never thought to look for that key on a Win2K Pro system with the ADMINPAK.
It pointed to a .dll, which I copied and added the to the test system, along
with exporting the key and adding it the the test system. Double clicked on
the customized mmc icon and bam... it worked!

Just in case someone else is looking for this solution, the contents of the
key (I named dsa.reg) is below.

Thank you!
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E355E538-1C2E-11D0-8C37-00C04FD8FE93}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E355E538-1C2E-11D0-8C37-00C04FD8FE93}\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\WINNT\\Installer\\{B7298620-EAC6-11D1-8F87-0060082EA63E}\\ADMgr.Ico,0
"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E355E538-1C2E-11D0-8C37-00C04FD8FE93}\InprocServer
32]
@="C:\\WINNT\\System32\\dsadmin.dll"
"InprocServer32"=hex(7):5a,00,27,00,6c,00,72,00,63,00,68,00,75,00,6e,00,66,0
0,\

28,00,4a,00,7d,00,61,00,71,00,46,00,43,00,79,00,52,00,2e,00,38,00,46,00,65,\

00,41,00,44,00,54,00,6f,00,6f,00,6c,00,73,00,3e,00,24,00,42,00,38,00,41,00,\

3d,00,40,00,21,00,79,00,66,00,28,00,63,00,74,00,27,00,4c,00,5b,00,4b,00,27,\
00,42,00,24,00,2e,00,00,00,00,00

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