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PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

By : Sherif Talaat, Haijun Fu
Book Image

PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook

By: Sherif Talaat, Haijun Fu

Overview of this book

<p>Technology’s growing rhythm is running faster than before, and business needs are getting more complex every day. So, it is time to learn something new to help conquer the challenge. With PowerShell in your toolbox, you can easily perform many tasks with less time, effort, and cost. PowerShell is a helpful scripting technology that enables the automation of system management tasks and the creation of system management tools.<br /><br />"PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook" comes with a set of real-world scenarios and detailed scripts that will help you get started with PowerShell, learn what PowerShell is, how to write the syntax, and build your scripts, and how to use and integrate PowerShell with different technologies, products, and tools.<br /><br />This handbook starts with the essential topics of PowerShell, then introduces the new features in PowerShell 3.0. The book then goes through building PowerShell scripts, function, and developing extensions like snap-ins and modules, and continues with detailed examples showing the usage of PowerShell with different technologies and products to give you an idea of PowerShell usage in the real world.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing Active Directory with PowerShell


The Active Directory module for PowerShell consolidates a group of cmdlets. You can use these cmdlets to manage your Active Directory domains, AD LDS configuration sets, and Active Directory Database Mounting Tool instances in a single, self-contained package. In the following sections, we will show examples to demonstrate how to operate Active Directory using PowerShell. In our examples, we add the computer Win8Client as a client to a domain fuhaijun.com with a domain controller named win2012-ad.

Account management

We can use the Active Directory module in PowerShell to manage your user and computer accounts in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). And now we will show how to use the Active Directory module to accomplish many of the common tasks that are associated with managing users.

User management

You can use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to manage users in AD DS in Windows Server 2012. This section contains topics that...