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Redirecting Well Known Containers (CN=Users; CN=Computers etc.)

In this post we will see the Powershell way of redirecting Users and Computers containers (i.e. Powershell equivalent of tools: redirusr.exe and redircmp.exe ). By now you might know that you can use Get-ADDomain cmdlet for viewing the well-known containers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:03 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): RedirectingWellKnownGuidContainer.ps1

Active Directory Powershell to manage Sites and Subnets – Part 2 (New-XADSubnet)

In an earlier post “Active Directory Powershell to manage sites – Part 1 (New-XADSite)” Jairo explained in detail about how to create a Site in Active Directory using AD Powershell. In today’s post I am going to discuss about how to create Subnets using Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:00 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 0 Comments

Three Module Extensions (DC Health, Trust Management and Demo Script)

This is a short blog post to highlight a few module extensions that we have been demoing at conferences this year. They show some of the new features in our PowerShell module as well as a few examples extending them. In this update, there are three modules: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:12 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): DemoScripts.zip

Tab completing LDAP attribute names inside Advanced Filters

In my previous post about Advanced filter s I showed how to use Powershell variables to represent values inside filters. Example: PS D:\> $JohnSmith = Get-ADUser JohnSmith PS D:\> Get-ADUser -Filter { manager -eq $JohnSmith.DistinguishedName } ## Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:00 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): ActiveDirectoryExtension.ps1.txt

ACTIVE DIRECTORY POWERSHELL TO MANAGE SITES – Part 1 (New-XADSite)

In this opportunity I am going to provide a solution to manage sites in your Active Directory (AD) forest by extending Active Directory PowerShell by implementing functions that allow creation, retrieval, update (moving to a site link, renaming) and deletion Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:29 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 6 Comments

HOW TO CREATE A FUNCTION TO VALIDATE THE EXISTENCE OF AN AD OBJECT (Test-XADObject)

In this posting I am sharing a simple but useful function that you might need to use in many of your scripts. This is a function that returns true if a given AD object exists provided its identity. The Identity parameter can receive any ADObject identity. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:25 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 2 Comments

Working with Certificates in Active Directory Powershell

AD Powershell uses .NET class X509Certificate to represent a certificate. Let's see how you can manage the certificates for a user. Update User Certificates You can create a X509Certificate (or X509Certificate2 ) object using the certificate file. PS Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 26, 2009 11:00 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 1 Comments
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Error Reporting in Active Directory Powershell

In this blog, I will discuss the Active Directory (AD) PowerShell error reporting. Good error reporting is critical and it saves time to resolve an issue. Let's start with the basics. In case of error, AD PowerShell cmdlet prints the error details which Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:59 PM by ActiveDirectoryPowershellTeam | 1 Comments
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Extending Active Directory Powershell

Today, I am going to show how we can leverage the power of Powershell V2 and Active Directory Module, and easily write powerful, professional cmdlets (with help message, positional parameters, default prompting, error handling etc.) for AD. Couple of Read More...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 3:30 AM by swaminathan | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): ActiveDirectoryExtension.ps1.txt
 
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