Dmitry’s PowerBlog: PowerShell and beyond

I spent most of the day today using the password policy cmdlets and the PowerShell UI we all use and love to create graphical user interface for fine-grained password policies (see overviews in 4sysops and Ulf’s blog) in my Windows 2008 lab. And here’s the result (click to see it full size):

What you see on the screen is the graphical user interface to manage those granular password policies and they are far nicer than ADSIEdit.

I included the following functionality:

• Create new password policy,
• See password policy properties (PowerGUI adds sorting, filtering, reporting, copy to clipboard and other goodies),
• Link a password policy to a user or group,
• Unlink a password policy,
• Remove a password policy,
• See the resultant policy for a selected user.

All these operations also support bulk selection.

You can download the pack from PowerGUI library: Fine-Grained Password Policies - please provide feedback so I can make it better.

And, as usual, should you want to learn the command-line or script the same actions, just click the PowerShell Code tab at the bottom of the PowerGUI window - and copy/paste from there.

Dmitry

Tags: PowerPack, AD cmdlets, Password management, Windows Server 2008, cmdlets, PowerGUI, PowerShell, AD, Policies, UI, Active Directory, Longhorn