New PowerShell cmdlets let you manage Active Directory quickly and efficiently

Hands on with Windows Server 2008 r2: Admin tools

Here are some common commands:

• To load the AD DS module, use Add-Module ActiveDirectory, then Get-Module

• To get information about a domain, use Get-ADDomain domain_name

• To display information about domain controllers in a specific domain, use Get-ADDomainController -Discover

• To browse a specific domain, with results neatly formed in a table, "change directory" into AD via Cd AD: and then use the following series of commands:

  PWD

  DIR | Format-Table -Auto

  CD "DC=domain_name,DC=TLD"

  DIR | ft –a

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