... get AD query results to appear in pull-down of recent results?

[dcrist]

We are trying out the new feature of being able to see scheduled tasks from multiple servers. In order to do this I have to run an AD query on the 'Computers' entity in my AD domain. (This because you can't highlight multiple things in the left pane). Once I get the results in the right pane I use the filter to pare it down to only those computers with 'server' in the OS name. Now I can highlight multiple servers and get a list of scheduled tasks.

The problem is that I have no quick way to get back to either my filtered results or even the full query results without running the entire query again.

Is there a way to get the query results to appear in the pull-down list (above the right pane) of recent results? We have about 16K computers and I'm getting tired of running the query! :-)

Thanks for any help,
Doug

[cmccullough]

We don't have a way to save the filtered view, but I did put together a query that might make this easier:

Go to File->Manage Object View->AD Queries.
Change the Query Type to Container/OU Contents.
Click the New Query icon to create a new query.
Give it a name like Servers, and enter the following in the LDAP Search Filter box:
(&(objectCategory=computer)(objectClass=computer)( operatingSystem=*server*))
Check the box to include subcontainers and click OK.
You can add any attributes you want, then close Object Manager.

To run this, right-click on the Containers/OUs object for your domain and choose Query Active Directory->Servers.