Active Directory Administrative Center.
Hello, Do any of you use the active directory administrative center much and if you do, are there any reasonably good keyboard shortcuts for it? It seems like a really nice interface. From time to time I come back to it from the standard MMC type layouts such as active directory users and computers etc. But every time I come back to it, it doesn't seem as efficient from the perspective of a keyboard user. There are just too many controls in the way. Let's say I find the list / treeview for browsing through OU's. When I find an OU that I need, it takes about 7 or 8 tab presses to get over to the list of items in that OU. Also, there are read only edit boxes after this that have some very interesting details but moving to them is very cumbersum as well. It might be the type of application that is perfect for scripting but I'd like to avoid that if possible as if it's something I'm going to use regularly, then I'd want to be able to use it from the domain controllers as well. I have a policy of little to no third party customizations on domain controllers. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Darragh
I think it shows its WPF roots in the fact that the WPF controls aren't labelled properly; one of the things I see with it is just normal slowness, more so for those using the keyboard for access. Though that seems to be the norm more often than not. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:16 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Active Directory Administrative Center. Hello, Do any of you use the active directory administrative center much and if you do, are there any reasonably good keyboard shortcuts for it? It seems like a really nice interface. From time to time I come back to it from the standard MMC type layouts such as active directory users and computers etc. But every time I come back to it, it doesn't seem as efficient from the perspective of a keyboard user. There are just too many controls in the way. Let's say I find the list / treeview for browsing through OU's. When I find an OU that I need, it takes about 7 or 8 tab presses to get over to the list of items in that OU. Also, there are read only edit boxes after this that have some very interesting details but moving to them is very cumbersum as well. It might be the type of application that is perfect for scripting but I'd like to avoid that if possible as if it's something I'm going to use regularly, then I'd want to be able to use it from the domain controllers as well. I have a policy of little to no third party customizations on domain controllers. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Darragh _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
I think it shows its WPF roots in the fact that the WPF controls aren't labelled properly; one of the things I see with it is just normal slowness, more so for those using the keyboard for access. Though that seems to be the norm more often than not. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh Ó Héiligh Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 7:16 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Active Directory Administrative Center. Hello, Do any of you use the active directory administrative center much and if you do, are there any reasonably good keyboard shortcuts for it? It seems like a really nice interface. From time to time I come back to it from the standard MMC type layouts such as active directory users and computers etc. But every time I come back to it, it doesn't seem as efficient from the perspective of a keyboard user. There are just too many controls in the way. Let's say I find the list / treeview for browsing through OU's. When I find an OU that I need, it takes about 7 or 8 tab presses to get over to the list of items in that OU. Also, there are read only edit boxes after this that have some very interesting details but moving to them is very cumbersum as well. It might be the type of application that is perfect for scripting but I'd like to avoid that if possible as if it's something I'm going to use regularly, then I'd want to be able to use it from the domain controllers as well. I have a policy of little to no third party customizations on domain controllers. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Darragh _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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