The MAP Toolkit uses the Active Directory credentials that you provide on this page to find details about domains, organizational units (OUs), and containers in your environment. If computers on the network are not in Active Directory, use the Windows networking protocols, or directly specify computers through one of the supported methods instead of using AD DS to discover computers.

This inventory method has the following characteristics:

·         Scope. This inventory method identifies all computers that are managed by AD DS.

·         Process. Active Directory queries return a list of computer objects defined in AD DS. The MAP Toolkit uses collector technologies such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to perform a detailed inventory.

·         Limitations. This method supports up to 120,000 computer objects per domain per run of this inventory method. If there are more than 120,000 computers, the additional objects will not be reported in the inventory results.

·         Credentials required. The wizard requires a domain account to be used to query Active Directory. At a minimum, this account should be a member of the Domain Users group in the domain. For each computer to be included in the inventory process, the tool also requires an account that is a member of the local Administrators group on that computer. For more information about the credentials required to connect to computers and collect hardware and software information, see Inventory Scenarios.