1. Automating AD Administration with Windows PowerShell
Don Jones
@concentrateddon

2. What We’ll Cover Key Active Directory Management Tasks
Core PowerShell Patterns and Practices
Use these same patterns with almost any command from almost any technology
Pipeline Parameter Binding
Parenthetical Expressions
Property Value Expansion

3. A Quick Note This session will primarily use demonstrations
I will capture a transcript of my shell activity
Will be available from ConcentratedTech.com (“Downloads”) by next week

4. Ways to Manage Active Directory
Microsoft ActiveDirectory Module
Supplied with Windows Server 2008 R2
Available in RSAT for Windows 7
Cannot run on other versions of Windows
Talks to 2008R2 domains natively
domain controllers require free Management Gateway RTW
Quest Active Directory Snap-In
Talks to domain controllers natively
Also talks to ADAM/ADLDS
Runs on any version of Windows
Better support for schema extensions
Essentially the same use patterns
Free!

5. Download Locations Windows 7 RSAT: http://bit.ly/auHwcO
AD Management Gateway:
Quest AD cmdlets:

6. The AD: Drive Provides a persisted security context
Mapped to your logon domain
Switch to this drive and run New-PSDrive to map additional domains
MS AD cmdlets “inherit” the credentials of the current drive
Can also use the –credential parameter to provide a credential
Map drives in your profile to have them always available

7. Let the Demos Begin Enough slides… on to the product!
Please raise questions as we go!

8. Pipeline Parameter Binding
Creating New AD Users
Pipelining and –passThru
(Re)Setting Passwords

9. Creating a profile script
Getting computer names: Three Ways
Exploring the MS AD Cmdlets
Exploring the Quest AD Cmdlets
Querying Properties of AD Objects

10. Final Chance for Q&A Additional Resources: http://ConcentratedTech.com
@concentrateddon
concentrateddon
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