I always chuckle when I or someone else mentions a feature of AdFind (or really any of the utilities from my website) and then someone else who uses it regularly says “Wow, I didn’t know it did that…”. This has happened a couple of different times in a couple of different forums.
Well in the new LDP in Longhorn, err excuse me, Windows Server 2008, Dmitri made it so the output of the attributes is in alphabetical order. I had several people suggest that I should add that functionality. At first I was like, yeah cool, good idea. Then I realized it is already in there, it is enabled with a switch called -soao which stands for (S)ort (O)rder (A)ttribute (O)utput. I put this in a few years ago when I spoke to Jerold at the MVP summit and he asked me to add it in for him.
Why, you ask, don’t you make this the standard??? Because it does add overhead, not very much (usually), but I perceive that I can feel it in the running of the utility when dumping large numbers of objects… Yes yes, overly sensitive but I do run AdFind A LOT.
joe
You know adfind has a ton of great options when you have to go back and look through all the switches.
You could put an adfind (and other tools) training video together and make some cash I think. Sort of like what Mark Minasi does with his training CDs.