Chapter 7: Working with Active Directory


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Overview

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Make a connection into Active Directory

  • Understand the use of ADSI providers

  • Understand how to work with Active Directory namespaces

  • Create organizational units in Active Directory

  • Create users in Active Directory

  • Create groups in Active Directory

  • Modify both users and groups in Active Directory

Network management in the Windows world begins and ends with Active Directory. In this chapter, we cover the user life cycle from a scripting and Active Directory perspective. You will learn how to create organizational units (OUs), users, groups, and computer accounts. We then describe how to modify the users and groups, and finally how to delete the user account. Along the way, you will pick up some more Windows PowerShell techniques. All the scripts mentioned in this chapter can be found in the corresponding scripts folder on the CD.




Microsoft Press - Microsoft Windows PowerShell Step by Step
MicrosoftВ® Windows PowerShell(TM) Step By Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
ISBN: 0735623953
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 128
Authors: Ed Wilson

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