Register the ADUC Menu Extension

Introduction

All Specops products that extend the Active Directory User and Computers (ADUC) menu, such as Specops Gpupdate, use a common framework built on a Microsoft technology called Display Specifiers. This technology requires that the component that handles the menus is registered in Active Directory in the Configuration Container. This registration is a one time action for all Specops products regardless on how many Specops products that are installed. So for example if this is performed when installing Specops Gpupdate, it is not necessary to perform it again when installing Specops Password Policy.

Step-by-step guide to register the Specops ADUC extensions

1. Close any open ADUC MMC
2. Install the Administrative tools for any of the Specops products that extend ADUC
3. Start a command prompt as either and administrator in the AD forest root domain or with enterprise administrator privileges.
4. Run the program SpecopsAducMenuExtensionInstaller.exe with the parameter /add. The program can be found the folder %CommonProgramFiles%\Specopssoft\Specops ADUC Extension. The SpecopsAducMenuExtensionInstaller.exe registers the Specops Gpupdate Display Specifiers in AD so that ADUC know that it is being extended.

Step-by-step guide to unregister the Specops ADUC extensions

Perform the same steps as when registering the ADUC extension but use the switch /remove instead when running SpecopsAducMenuExtensionInstaller.exe

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