A lot of people don’t realize this, but if you have a computer outside (not joined to a domain) you can still access on-prem Active Directory. No reason to domain join your computer just to do some AD work. 😉
As long as you are connected to the local network, say for example with VPN or cable, you can actually run the AD console as a domain user with the runas command:
runas.exe /netonly /user:abc.local\jsmith "mmc dsa.msc /domain=abc.local"Similarly, you can do this with other programs in Windows. Here are some examples:
runas.exe /netonly /user:abc.local\jsmith "CMD.exe /domain=abc.local"
...enter your domain password
and from here you could run for example...
Get-ADUser -server EXDC01 jsmith -Properties *Note that you need admin rights to run the command.