PowerShell for Active Directory Examples

Andrei published on PowerGUI.org a bunch of how-to’s to Active Directory management with PowerShell:

• A quick intro to the Management Shell for AD from Quest Software
• AD Tricks: How many objects do you have in your AD, part 1
• AD Tricks: How many objects do you have in your AD, part 2

In these posts Andrei shares some of his tips and tricks for using free Active Directory cmdlets to manage your AD environment.

Among the scenarios he covers are:

• Enumerating users, groups and other objects
  • List all users in my domain
  • List all users in a specific OU
  • Get help on Get-QADUser parameters
  • Get specific user properties
  • List first-level organizational units in your domain
  • List all users in my domain with their display name and city
  • Find all users in my domain that has City attribute starts with ‘ny’

• Updating user properties
  • Set description for a specific user account:
  • Set city to Liverpool for all user accounts in the Demo OU

• User creation
  • Create user accounts

• Group operations
  • Create a new group
  • Add all users with a specific description to a group
  • List group members, display names and descriptions

• Bulk creation
  • Export useraccounts to a CSV file
  • Import useraccounts from a CSV file
  • Import useraccounts from CSV file and add them to a specific group

• Statistics:
  • Count users, groups, OUs
  • Count departments
  • Get statistics for departments, locations, etc.
  • Count mailboxes per each mailbox store (will work against Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003)

Note that all of them are one-liners! Managing Active Directory from command line has never been so easy.

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