{"id":284,"date":"2014-11-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/11\/24\/powertip-find-powershell-help-topics-for-active-directory\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:57","slug":"powertip-find-powershell-help-topics-for-active-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-powershell-help-topics-for-active-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find PowerShell Help Topics for Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Find the&nbsp;<span>Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\">&nbsp;Where are the Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\">&nbsp;If you have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Active Directory Remote Server Administration Tools <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(RSAT) installed, you also have the Active Directory Help topics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\">&nbsp; If you have Windows PowerShell 4.0 or Windows PowerShell 3.0 installed, you can run the following command<br \/>&nbsp; from&nbsp;an elevated Windows PowerShell console to install them:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Update-Help -Module ActiveDirectory -Verbose<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">To view the topics, you must first import the module:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Import-Module ActiveDirectory<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Now try the following commands:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help about_ActiveDirectory<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help about_ActiveDirectory_Filter<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help about_ActiveDirectory_Identity<\/p>\n<p class=\"Code\" style=\"margin-left:120px\">Get-Help about_ActiveDirectory_ObjectModel<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">You can also find these Help topics on TechNet:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh531525(v=ws.10).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Active Directory for Windows PowerShell About Help Topics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Find the&nbsp;Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory. &nbsp;Where are the Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory? &nbsp;If you have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Active Directory Remote Server Administration Tools &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(RSAT) installed, you also have the Active Directory Help topics. &nbsp; If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,313,56,356,45],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-active-directory","tag-ashley-mcglone","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Find the&nbsp;Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory. &nbsp;Where are the Windows PowerShell help_about topics for Active Directory? &nbsp;If you have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Active Directory Remote Server Administration Tools &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(RSAT) installed, you also have the Active Directory Help topics. &nbsp; If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}