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Active Directory with PowerShell

By : Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI
5 (1)
Book Image

Active Directory with PowerShell

5 (1)
By: Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Active Directory with PowerShell
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing computer accounts


In previous sections, we have seen several operational tasks that can be performed on user accounts in Active Directory using PowerShell. This section focuses on performing similar operations on computer objects.

Managing computer objects is not much different from managing user objects. All you need to do is to use the correct cmdlets and the rest of the process remains the same.

The following topics are covered as a part of managing computer accounts using PowerShell. Let's go through these one by one and understand how we can accomplish them:

  • Creating computer accounts

  • Modifying computer properties

  • Enabling or disabling computer accounts

  • Deleting computer accounts

Creating computer accounts

Most system administrators do not create computer accounts manually in Active Directory. Instead, they join computers to the domain and the account gets created automatically. After automatic object creation, the administrator moves the computer accounts from the default container...