Open Active Directory Users and Computers for a specific OU
Started as a software developer specialized in UI and database design, later moved into IT systems administration. Working mainly with infrastructure and services based on Windows Server (Exchange 2016, Active Directory, WSUS, MDT, ...) and VMWare vSphere.
After using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) for decades I only recently learned that there is indeed a way to 'directly jump' to a specific Organizational Unit (OU) when starting it. I wanted this for years because I tend to forget where exactly some things are to be found in our rather big OU structure.
From the command line, ADUC can be called - quite 'self-explanatory' - by starting dsa.msc. Documentation about available command line options is hard to find but in addition to /domain= and /server= there is one option that you can use to specify the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) for an OU to be used. Example:
dsa.msc /rdn="OU=VMs,OU=ESX,OU=KO,OU=Lokal,OU=...,OU=...,OU=..."
RDNs are essentially the 'left part' of a full Distinguished Name (DN) attribute for an OU. They can be derived from the latter by simply removing the DC=... part from them.
When specifying an RDN on the command line ADUC will not simply 'jump to' this OU but will instead show only this OU (plus sub-OUs) and nothing much else (except stored queries). It doesn't even show the OU path from the root to the specified OU. This might be a drawback for daily work but I did create a handful of desktop shortcuts to directly get to specific and deeply nested OUs anyhow. And, of course, you can have an 'unrestricted' session of ADUC running in parallel.