What’s new in AD cmdlets 1.2.2

As Bob blogged yesterday the latest release of Quest’s free AD cmdlets are now available for download. I wanted to take a few minutes to describe what’s actually new and changed in this release.

First and foremost – this is a maintenance release – think about it as a service pack: no new features but lots of bugfixes.

All features were introduced back in 1.2 two months ago and if you missed it have a look at the blog posts I had on these:

• 1.2 new feature list
• New group membership cmdlets
• Filtering by account creation date
• AD cmdlets for object undelete

The key bugfixes added to 1.2.2 maintenance release are:

• Fixed the Connection property and other incompatibility issues which affected Kirk’s AD PowerPack.
• Made Member, MemberOf and AppliesTo properties indexable: so you can do something like $user.MemberOf[1].
• Added the ability to connect to domain controller, ADAM/ADLDS server or ActiveRoles Server by IP address (e.g. if DNS is not set up properly.)
• Fixed TsHomeDrive and TsHomeDirectory bug reported by Shay.
• And finally enhanced the setup so it ensures compatibility with ActiveRoles Server should you have this product deployed.

Overall a good service release and the one we plan to make our minimal system requirement for AD PowerPack starting with PowerGUI 1.9.

Download it here.

Tags: AD, AD cmdlets, Active Directory, PowerShell, Release
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