QuickUserInfos

The Active Directory Domain Service is the directory-based service Microsoft developed for Windows Server systems. Its database contains three different types of objects, namely groups, computers, and users, which can be retrieved via the Control Panel or using specific console commands. However, applications such as QuickUserInfos, which is mostly a membership manager for Active Directory, can help you get the data you want much easier.

QuickUserInfos can connect to Active Directory, allowing you to query its database for particular users. Provided the computer is already in the domain, a login account can be used to establish the connection. Otherwise, you must specify the domain name and the correct credentials. Note that changing the connection mode requires an application restart.

The application can extract information about the Active Directory accounts and the group memberships, be them inherited or not.

Relying on the schema of the Active Directory database, QuickUserInfos allows you to select various attributes to retrieve. It even renames the columns in the database using more user-friendly strings that are offered as suggestions. And, being suggestions, that means you are free to modify the labels as you wish.

To obtain a more structured view, you can use minus signs as labels to create horizontal lines in your report and move attributes around. In other words, the order of the attributes can be changed, and different types of data can be separated for a clean look. Moreover, you can delete unneeded attributes and add new ones, according to the database schema.

QuickUserInfos can be used in a professional environment relying on a Win20xx domain. Used properly and exploited at its full potential, it can become a handy administration tool for Active Directory, facilitating quick database queries to obtain lists of users and group memberships.