Active Directory Service Interfaces Editor (ADSI Edit)

ADSI Edit is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) editor that you can use to manage objects and attributes in Active Directory. ADSI Edit (Adsiedit.msc) provides a view of every object and every attribute in an Active Directory forest. You can use ADSI Edit to query, to view, and to edit attributes that are not exposed through other Active Directory Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins.

For more information, visit the following Microsoft website:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773354(WS.10).aspx

Articles and Videos

The following articles and videos demonstrate how to troubleshoot and diagnose issues using the ADSI Edit tool:

	Error when you try to run the Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool: "LDAP injection characters were found in the user alias" This article shows you how to troubleshoot the "LDAP injection characters were found in the user alias. Change the user alias in the on-premises Active Directory" email error message that may occur when you try to run directory synchronization in Office 365.
	Error when you try to run the Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool Configuration wizard: "The Enterprise Administrator credentials that you supplied are not valid." This issue may occur if you type incorrect Enterprise Administrator credentials on the Active Directory Credentials page of the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization Configuration wizard.
	How to use SMTP matching to match on-premises user accounts to Office 365 user accounts for directory synchronization This article discusses how this transfer of the source of authority is affected by "SMTP matching," a process that uses the primary Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) address to match the on-premises user account with the Office 365 user account.
	Mail-enabled groups that have an email address aren't synchronized to Office 365 When you use the Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization tool to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory environment to Microsoft Office 365, you notice that mail-enabled groups that have an email address are not synchronized to Office 365.