Here’s the full list of the Microsoft’s AD cmdlets currently included in Windows Server 2008 R2. For your convenience, I have grouped them by nouns and provided the count in brackets:
ADAccount (4):
- Disable-ADAccount
- Enable-ADAccount
- Search-ADAccount
- Unlock-ADAccount
ADAccountAuthorizationGroup (1):
- Get-ADAccountAuthorizationGroup
ADAccountControl (1):
- Set-ADAccountControl
ADAccountExpiration (2):
- Clear-ADAccountExpiration
- Set-ADAccountExpiration
ADAccountPassword (1):
- Set-ADAccountPassword
ADAccountResultantPasswordReplicationPolicy (1):
- Get-ADAccountResultantPasswordReplicationPolicy
ADComputer (4):
- Get-ADComputer
- New-ADComputer
- Remove-ADComputer
- Set-ADComputer
ADComputerServiceAccount (3):
- Add-ADComputerServiceAccount
- Get-ADComputerServiceAccount
- Remove-ADComputerServiceAccount
ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy (2):
- Get-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy
- Set-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy
ADDirectoryServer (1):
- Move-ADDirectoryServer
ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole (1):
- Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole
ADDomain (2):
- Get-ADDomain
- Set-ADDomain
ADDomainController (1):
- Get-ADDomainController
ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicy (3):
- Add-ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicy
- Get-ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicy
- Remove-ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicy
ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicyUsage (1)
:
- Get-ADDomainControllerPasswordReplicationPolicyUsage
ADDomainMode (1):
- Set-ADDomainMode
ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy (4):
- Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
- New-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
- Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
- Set-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicySubject (3):
- Add-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicySubject
- Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicySubject
- Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicySubject
ADForest (2):
- Get-ADForest
- Set-ADForest
ADForestMode (1):
- Set-ADForestMode
ADGroup (4):
- Get-ADGroup
- New-ADGroup
- Remove-ADGroup
- Set-ADGroup
ADGroupMember (3):
- Add-ADGroupMember
- Get-ADGroupMember
- Remove-ADGroupMember
ADObject (7):
- Get-ADObject
- Move-ADObject
- New-ADObject
- Remove-ADObject
- Rename-ADObject
- Restore-ADObject
- Set-ADObject
ADOptionalFeature (3):
- Disable-ADOptionalFeature
- Enable-ADOptionalFeature
- Get-ADOptionalFeature
ADOrganizationalUnit (4):
- Get-ADOrganizationalUnit
- New-ADOrganizationalUnit
- Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit
- Set-ADOrganizationalUnit
ADPrincipalGroupMembership (3):
- Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
- Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
- Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership
ADRootDSE (1):
- Get-ADRootDSE
ADServiceAccount (6):
- Get-ADServiceAccount
- Install-ADServiceAccount
- New-ADServiceAccount
- Remove-ADServiceAccount
- Set-ADServiceAccount
- Uninstall-ADServiceAccount
ADServiceAccountPassword (1):
- Reset-ADServiceAccountPassword
ADUser (4):
- Get-ADUser
- New-ADUser
- Remove-ADUser
- Set-ADUser
ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy (1):
- Get-ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy
As I mentioned before these will RTM with R2 in 2010 and most of them have free 3rd-party alternatives you can use meanwhile.
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Do you have any more information on the web services interface these will work against?
Paul,
What kind of information do you need? As far as I was told it is a fairly loosely typed web service with a lot of XML going between the caller and the service. Also, it is very similar to the web service ILM v2 has – so if you have access to ILM’s beta SDK – this should help you get a feeling of what the AD one is.
Dmitry
Thanks, I guess I just wanted to know if there is a beta or CTP of these web services out there yet. I’ll look into the ILM stuff.
Public beta is coming with Win 7 beta in Dec 08 – Q1 09.
For now, ILM v2 RC is your friend. The data model is different but the web service is basically the same.
How can I use “Remove-ADUser” to delete an user from Active Directory if there is no “-force” switch?