5.6 Managing Advanced Queries

Regular DRA search functionality allows you to search on attributes of objects in Active Directory such as users, computers, printers, groups, and OUs. It also allows you to specify wildcard character searches. However, you cannot use DRA search functionality to search on customized attributes, like account lockout status or account expired status. Advanced search queries enable you to perform searches using customized attributes that are not available through the DRA search functionality. DRA uses LDAP to support the advanced queries feature. You can use advanced queries to search for users, contacts, groups, computers, printers, OUs, and any other object that DRA supports.