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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.