Using Search

To locate objects in Active Directory, open the Active Directory Users and Computers console is located in the Administrative Tools folder. Then right-click the domain or container in the console tree and click Search. In the dialog box allows the search for options that allow you to search the global catalog to locate objects in Active Directory. In the Find dialog box helps you to create an LDAP query that will be implemented against the directory or specific Où. The global catalog contains a partial copy of the entire directory, so it stores information about each object in the tree or forest. Because the global catalog contains information about each object, the user can obtain information regardless of the domain in which the tree or forest contains the data. Active Directory automatically generates the contents of the directory at the global level of the areas that constitute the directory. Found on the item.