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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 ...

Summary: Learn how to avoid loading the default AD: drive when you load the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell.  How can I avoid creating the default AD: drive when I import the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell?  Use the ENV drive and set the ADPS_LoadDefaultDrive variable to 0. Add the follow...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the AD: drive to explore Active Directory Domain Services.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I will confess that I love using the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell. I love the way I can use Windows PowerShell to create new users or to easily search for and find users and other stuf...