Find Instant Messaging Users on Your Network

You may need to determine the e-mail addresses and other information about your Instant Messaging users.

To find Instant Messaging users on your network:

1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers
   On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the console tree, select the Windows 2000 domain that contains the Instant Messaging users you want.
3. On the Action menu, click Find.
4. On Find Users, Contacts, and Groups, from the Find drop-down list, select Users, Contacts, and Groups, and then in the In drop-down list, select the domain you want to search. To search Active Directory, select Entire Directory.
5. On the Advanced tab, click Field, click User, and then click one of the following:
   • Instant Messaging URL
   • Instant Messaging Home Server URL
   • Instant Messaging Address (if present)
6. In Condition, select one of the following prerequisites in the drop-down list:
   • Starts with
   • Ends with
   • Is (exactly)
   • Is not
   • Present
   • Not present
7. In Value, type the appropriate criterion.

   For example, if your selection in Condition is Ends with, in Value, you might type @computer-store.store.

8. Tip   Your entries might be similar to these suggestions:

   • To find all users enabled for Instant Messaging, select Instant Messaging URL and the condition Present.
   • To find all users homed on a given server, select Instant Messaging Home Server URL, the condition Starts with, and type the value "http://servername." For example, if your server is called GlobalHQ, type the value "http://GlobalHQ."
   • To find all users in an Instant Messaging domain, select Instant Messaging URL, the condition Starts with, and type the value "http://Instant_Messaging_Domain_Name." For example, to find all users in the Instant Messaging domain "im.microsoft.com," the value entry would be "http://im.microsoft.com."
9. After you have typed the appropriate criteria in Field, Condition, and Value, click Add.
10. When your search criteria appear in the lower window, click Find Now.

    The search results, sorted by Name, Alias, and Internet E-Mail Address, appear in a new window at the bottom of the screen.

    Note   If the search yields no matches, the message, No items match the current search appears.