So you've got Active Directory and PowerShell... how do you make them work together? How do you add 500 new user accounts complete with group membership using only a few commands? How do you find all your obsolete computer accounts and move them to another OU? How do you create a report of all your empty groups? Find out in Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM 2 nd Ed. You'll not only learn about managing Active Directory users and groups with PowerShell, but also computer accounts, group policy, Active Directory infrastructure and more. Revised and expanded with over 85% new material, coverage includes PowerShell solutions from Microsoft, Quest Software, and SDM Software as well as "out of the box" PowerShell features like the [ADSI] type adapter. Inside you'll find plenty of real-world and practical examples, including complete scripts you can use right now to get your job done faster and more efficiently! This book is not only the definitive guide to managing Active Directory, but also local directory services. Need to manage the local administrator account on 1000 servers? Need to find out who belongs to the local Administrators group on those 1000 servers? You can easily accomplish these tasks and more with PowerShell right from your desktop. Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM 2 nd Edition can be used as a reference "cookbook" or read cover to cover as a thorough tutorial led by a Windows PowerShell MVP and Active Directory expert. PowerShell IS the Microsoft Windows management tool of today, so what are you waiting for?

Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM, 2nd Edition

Computers & Technology

Jeffery Hicks

Operating Systems

SAPIEN Technologies

Summary
Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition is an innovative tutorial designed for administrators. Just set aside one hour a day—lunchtime would be perfect—for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. You'll start with the basics—what is PowerShell and what can you do with it. Then, you'll move systematically through the techniques and features you'll use to make your job easier and your day shorter.
 Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. 
About the Technology
PowerShell is both a language and an administrative shell with which you can control and automate nearly every aspect of Windows. It accepts and executes commands immediately, and you can write scripts to manage most Windows servers like Exchange, IIS, and SharePoint.
About the Book
This book is a tutorial designed for busy administrators. Just set aside one hour a day for a month and you'll learn all the practical techniques you need to make your job easier and your day shorter. This totally revised book covers new PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and later. This edition is appropriate for PowerShell version 3 and later.
Experience with Windows administration is helpful. No programming experience is assumed.
What's Inside
<ul>
<li>Learn PowerShell from the beginning—no experience required!</li>
<li>Covers PowerShell 3 and later running on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008R2, and later</li>
<li>Each lesson should take you one hour or less</li>
</ul>
About the Authors
Powershell MVPs Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks bring years as successful trainers to this concise, easy-to-follow book. Don blogs at PowerShell.com and you can find Jeff at jdhitsolutions.com/blog.
Table of Contents
<ol>
<li>Before you begin</li>
<li>Meet PowerShell</li>
<li>Using the help system</li>
<li>Running commands</li>
<li>Working with providers</li>
<li>The pipeline: connecting commands</li>
<li>Adding commands</li>
<li>Objects: data by another name</li>
<li>The pipeline, deeper</li>
<li>Formatting—and why it's done on the right</li>
<li>Filtering and comparisons</li>
<li>A practical interlude</li>
<li>Remote control: one to one, and one to many</li>
<li>Using Windows Management Instrumentation</li>
<li>Multitasking with background jobs</li>
<li>Working with many objects, one at a time</li>
<li>Security alert!</li>
<li>Variables: a place to store your stuff</li>
<li>Input and output</li>
<li>Sessions: remote control with less work</li>
<li>You call this scripting?</li>
<li>Improving your parameterized script</li>
<li>Advanced remoting configuration</li>
<li>Using regular expressions to parse text files</li>
<li>Additional random tips, tricks, and techniques</li>
<li>Using someone else's script</li>
<li>Never the end</li>
<li>PowerShell cheat sheet</li>
</ol>

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches

Don Jones

Networking & Cloud Computing

Manning Pubns Co

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