Desktop Active Directory Search

This is a handy little tip to search active directory from your desktop.  From a Start –> Run, issue the following:

%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\rundll32.exe dsquery,OpenQueryWindow

If you need to do a wildcard search, select Custom Search from the Find dropdown.  On the advanced tab, enter something like:

name=*partial_object_name*

The less wildcards you can enter, the faster the search will be.  Apparently you cannot use wildcards at any other location, which is sort of lame…