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I have to say this was by far the most disappointing talk of the conference. I was hoping to see real improvements to the AD management experience, but we really only got increased page sizes and improvements for some replication edge cases when there are still functionally broken experiences in AD management. For example, search for a user in ADUC, open the object you searched for, then try to edit the object with the attribute editor tab. You can’t, because for some reason you still need to navigate to the object directly via its OU to access the attribute editor. I was also expecting some improvements to AD objects in PowerShell and their strange object behavior that seems to break PowerShell conventions. Some examples are improper AD adapter loading and ADUser properties handling in parallel threads https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75851412/powershell-foreach-object-parallel-not-all-properties-of-piped-in-object-are-a. It doesn’t seem like the AD administrator’s experience was at the forefront of the Server 2025 AD changes.
- Cliff_FisherMar 28, 2024
Microsoft
Thanks for the feedback, Joseph. We've added PowerShell cmdlets for most/all of the new feature work, and I'd consider the PerfMon counters to be loosely "AD Management," or at least supportability. To your direct point - there have not been many updates in the MMC-based AD tools, but we do have some discussions underway in the management space.