CHAPTER 8

Managing Active Directory with PowerShell

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

WORK WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY	174
Load the AD PowerShell Module	174
Understand PowerShell Active Directory Basics	178
Work with Users, Groups, and OUs	182
UNDERSTAND MANAGED SERVICE ACCOUNTS	185
Understand Managed Service Accounts	185
Create Managed Service Accounts	186
Install and Use Managed Service Accounts	188
WORK WITH THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY RECYCLE BIN	189
Understand How the Recycle Bin Works	190
Enable the AD Recycle Bin	191
Use the AD Recycle Bin	193

PowerShell 2.0 has more than 90 cmdlets dedicated to Active Directory (AD). In PowerShell 1.0, you could work with AD objects, albeit not easily because doing so required a detailed knowledge of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Although you still need to know about LDAP in PowerShell 2.0, you do not have to delve as deep as you did in PowerShell 1.0.