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Active Directory Users and Computers

I'm reaching the end of my rope with MSFT system utilities.  I have for over three years added and deleted users from out system.  For the last 6 or 7 months every time I try to launce this app on my exchange server, it either never launches, launches and then hangs, or launches allows several changes then hangs.  To make a simple change to a user's exchange parameters can take from 4 minutes to 5 hours!    Anybody have any insight to how this fiasco was dropped on us.
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you can install the domain admin tools on a workstation and manage the server remotely.
Not sure what it is called but it is a free pack of tools from microsoft website.
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Have tried several "downloads" from Redmond, and they are seemingly as useless as the built ins
so when you run AD users and computers from a workstation it crashes/hangs also?

I used to have a server that would do this if exchange system manager was open.
After I installed latest SP for exchange all went ok.

this does suggest some fundamental corruption or config error (no I wont recommend rebuilding your server!)
check you have all the appropriate admin shares, and that dns is functioning ok - delete any dodgy entries for pcs that no longer exist or have two ips associated.
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are you after the adminpak.msi - this installs AD Users and Computers and so on...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&displaylang=en
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