Showing archive results for March 2013

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows PowerShell Active Directory module provider to modify user attributes in AD DS.  Hey, Scripting Guy! Just searching for users, or filtering for them, is not entirely all that useful. For me, I need to be able to make changes based on that search or filter. Is this easil...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory module to determine the AD DS forest mode.   How can I use Windows PowerShell to determine the AD DS forest mode?  Use the Get-ADForest cmdlet from the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell and use the ForestMode property: (Get-ADForest...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory module provider to find non-default AD DS user properties.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to find information about users such as office location, and phone number that is not returned by the Active Directory module provider by default. How ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to obtain the default password policy for Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server 2012.  How can I easily find the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) default password policy by using Windows PowerShell?  Use the Get-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy cmdlet from the R...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about how to use the Windows PowerShell provider to find user information in Active Directory.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I often need to find information in Active Directory, but I do not like having to write LDAP queries. To me, it is soooo last century—I mean, Fred Flintstone used to write ...