{"id":4291,"date":"2009-03-30T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/03\/30\/active-directory-administrative-center-for-windows-server-2008-r2-implemented-using-adpowershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:12:44","slug":"active-directory-administrative-center-for-windows-server-2008-r2-implemented-using-adpowershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/active-directory-administrative-center-for-windows-server-2008-r2-implemented-using-adpowershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory Administrative Center for Windows Server 2008 R2 implemented using ADPowershell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn\u2019t just add <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/powershell\/archive\/2009\/03\/20\/active-directory-powershell-blog.aspx\">ADPowershell<\/a> \u2013 it also adds Active Directory Administrative Center (or ADAC), a new GUI tool for AD administrators.&nbsp; Read about it on <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd560651.aspx\">TechNet<\/a>.&nbsp; What\u2019s more, while you can\u2019t tell just from looking at it, ADAC is implemented entirely over Windows PowerShell 2.0 and ADPowershell!&nbsp; Every read and write to AD goes through ADPowerShell.&nbsp; So, if you were wondering whether Windows PowerShell and ADPowershell are just for scripters &#8212; they aren\u2019t!&nbsp; Windows PowerShell and ADPowerShell provide a powerful and flexible management API for the construction of management applications of any type.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>Jon Newman<br \/>Active Directory Administrative Center<br \/>(formerly from PowerShell 1.0 team)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn\u2019t just add ADPowershell \u2013 it also adds Active Directory Administrative Center (or ADAC), a new GUI tool for AD administrators.&nbsp; Read about it on TechNet.&nbsp; What\u2019s more, while you can\u2019t tell just from looking at it, ADAC is implemented entirely over Windows PowerShell 2.0 and ADPowershell!&nbsp; Every read and write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-active-directory"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn\u2019t just add ADPowershell \u2013 it also adds Active Directory Administrative Center (or ADAC), a new GUI tool for AD administrators.&nbsp; Read about it on TechNet.&nbsp; What\u2019s more, while you can\u2019t tell just from looking at it, ADAC is implemented entirely over Windows PowerShell 2.0 and ADPowershell!&nbsp; Every read and write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}