If you have ever worked with PowerShell, you probably already know that basically anything about the Windows operating system can be manipulated from this fancy blue command-line interface. The same is true for client operating systems as well as servers. Most roles that we implement in Windows Server can be manipulated via GUI or via PowerShell. You are able to tap into the same settings and functionality either way. Active Directory and Group Policy are no different; there are all kinds of PowerShell commands and cmdlets available for interacting with your domain's directory technologies.
In this chapter, we will cover many examples of those cmdlets. The settings, GPOs, links, and permissions that we configure will be things that we have done in this book already, formerly by utilizing GPMC. Now we turn to PowerShell to showcase...