Vista Admin Pack AD Not opening – FIXED
When I first installed the Admin pack for vista, it worked perfectly, I was able to connected to every thing with out any issues, however I did notice within in the AD MMCÂ the icons were not quite right, some were missing and things just were very hard to determine what was a group and what was a user, you really had to pay attention to the objects.
Or if you don’t even get that far, as there have been reports that some people are unable to connect to AD, or other MMC consoles after the installation.
The connection some how gets lost and you are unable to again connect to a MMC console.
Anyway’s there is a very easy fix.
Install the Admin pack, then run the below script.
(this is simply registering the necessary DLL’s.
@echo off  REM RegisterAdminPak.cmd REM (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.  set filelist=adprop.dll azroles.dll azroleui.dll ccfg95.dll set filelist=%filelist% certadm.dll certmmc.dll certpdef.dll certtmpl.dll set filelist=%filelist% certxds.dll cladmwiz.dll clcfgsrv.dll clnetrex.dll set filelist=%filelist% cluadmex.dll cluadmmc.dll cmproxy.dll cmroute.dll set filelist=%filelist% cmutoa.dll cnet16.dll debugex.dll dfscore.dll set filelist=%filelist% dfsgui.dll dhcpsnap.dll dnsmgr.dll domadmin.dll set filelist=%filelist% dsadmin.dll dsuiwiz.dll imadmui.dll lrwizdll.dll set filelist=%filelist% mprsnap.dll msclus.dll mstsmhst.dll mstsmmc.dll set filelist=%filelist% nntpadm.dll nntpapi.dll nntpsnap.dll ntdsbsrv.dll set filelist=%filelist% ntfrsapi.dll rasuser.dll rigpsnap.dll rsadmin.dll set filelist=%filelist% rscommon.dll rsconn.dll rsengps.dll rsjob.dll set filelist=%filelist% rsservps.dll rsshell.dll rssubps.dll rtrfiltr.dll set filelist=%filelist% schmmgmt.dll tapisnap.dll tsuserex.dll vsstskex.dll set filelist=%filelist% w95inf16.dll w95inf32.dll winsevnt.dll winsmon.dll set filelist=%filelist% winsrpc.dll winssnap.dll ws03res.dll  for %%i in (%filelist%) do ( echo Registering %%i ... regsvr32 /s %%i )  echo. Echo Command Completed
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January 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am
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