Active Directory Domain Services Tool (ADDS_Tool)

Table of Contents

• Documents
• Screenshots
• Description
• Features
• Dependencies
• Changelog
• License

Documents

• changelog.md

Screenshots

Description

Windows Command shell program that is a wrapper for ADDS toolset: - DSQUERY - DSGET - DSADD - DSMOD - DSMOVE

The advantage of using ADDS Tool over something like Active Directory Explorer:

• Command shell is faster.
• Navigating shell menu is quicker.
• Every search is saved to log file; text files are easy to extract information from, and stores a historical search record.
• ADDS Tool allows setting parameters, most important is the -limit parameter, which by default is set to -limit 0, which is no limit.

Why not PowerShell? I like the windows command shell. It does most of what's needed. When the shell is lacking, PowerShell can be leveraged, which the program does.

Features

• 🆕 feature: ability to run multiple instances of the tool. This is useful when doing queries that take a long time, e.g. query every computer object in the directory.

What's Working

Currently only searching is working.

• Main Menu
• Settings Menu
• Logs
• Search Universal
• Search User
• Search Group
• Search Computer
• Search Server
• Search OU

Logs

Default for logging is pathed to: %APPDATA%\ADDS

ADDS_Tool_Active_Session.log --User session information

ADDS_Tool_Session_Archive.log --archive log for all sessions

ADDS_Tool_Last_Search.log --will contain last search results

ADDS_Tool_Session_Search.log --will contain all searches for the session

ADDS_Tool_Search_Archive.log --archive log for all searches

• There's the ability to keep session logs
• There's the ability to nuke all logs --ghost mode.

Parameters

Tool can be run in auto mode with the following parameters:

Parameter1 $SEARCH_TYPE

- user
- group
- computer
- server
- ou

Parameter2 $SEARCH_ATTRIBUTE

- any valide attribute for the given object

Parameter3 $SEARCH_KEY

- any valide search key, such as "*" wildcard

e.g. ADDS_Tool.cmd "Parameter1" "Parameter2" "Parameter3"

Logs will need to be opened manually

Configuration

The config file needs to be in the same directory as the tool cmd.

Dependencies

ADDS_Tool requires (RSAT) Remote Server Administrative Tools. The program will ask to install if not detected, using DISM. Must be runnig with administartive privilege in order to install RSAT.

PowerShell: Leveraged for some functions.

‼️ 🚧 ‼️ UNDER DEVELOPMENT ‼️ 🚧 ‼️

Future Features

Everything else beyond search.

License

GPL

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