The good news: the wizards that are built into the Microsoft SBS server product are so good that I rarely have a need to use any of the regular utilities (command-line or GUI) that comes with the Microsoft server products.
The bad news: when I do need to use one of those utilties, I always feel like I’m using it for the first time.
ADSI Edit is one of those utilities. I recently needed to run it on an SBS 2008 server for an Exchange issue I was working on. After starting it up (Start –> Run –> Adsiedit.msc) and using the defaults for the “Connect to:” , something looked wrong. That’s when I realized that the Schema and Configuration sections were not displaying. And it was the Configuration section that I needed.
Of course, the answer was simple — once I found the answer!
I just needed to go back and select Connect to –> Schema, and then Connect to –> Configuration.
