Administering Active Directory Objects with PowerShell

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Transform slow, error prone, graphical administration of Active Directory into efficient, repeatable PowerShell commands.

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Course Description

Learn to manage the components of your Active Directory domain with simple command-line statements. Effortlessly find and manipulate users, computer accounts, groups, and organizational units, while reducing the workload on your domain controllers! Join Microsoft Certified Trainer Mike Hammond in this informative and fun exploration of ways to make your IT Administration tasks faster and easier!

Course Description

Learn to manage the components of your Active Directory domain with simple command-line statements. Effortlessly find and manipulate users, computer accounts, groups, and organizational units, while reducing the workload on your domain controllers! Join Microsoft Certified Trainer Mike Hammond in this informative and fun exploration of ways to make your IT Administration tasks faster and easier!

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Course Syllabus

Welcome and Introduction
- 13m 9s

—Welcome and Introduction 5m 42s
—What You Will Get from This Course 1m 48s
—Demo: Only HOW Long to Create 500 Users? 5m 39s

Finding Objects in Active Directory
- 30m 47s

—Finding Objects in Active Directory 5m 2s
—Querying for Multiple Objects with the –Filter Parameter 5m 33s
—Retrieving Additional Properties 5m 30s
—Targeting Other Domains 3m 23s
—Targeting Specific Locations in Active Directory 7m 59s
—Repurposing Old Queries with the –LDAPFilter Parameter 3m 18s

Managing User Accounts
- 42m 44s

—Creating User Accounts with New-ADUser 17m 51s
—Changing User Properties with Set-ADUser 11m 32s
—Enabling, Disabling, Unlocking User Accounts & Managing Passwords 5m 58s
—Managing Stale User Accounts 7m 22s

Managing Computer Accounts
- 36m 46s

—Creating and Finding Computer Accounts 11m 55s
—Enabling, Disabling, and Moving Computer Accounts 5m 11s
—Setting Computer Account Properties 13m 28s
—Managing the Secure Channel 6m 11s

Managing Groups
- 27m 46s

—Creating and Retrieving Groups 7m 30s
—Setting Group Properties 6m 3s
—Managing Group Membership and Deleting Groups 14m 12s

Managing Organizational Units
- 20m 37s

—Creating and Retrieving OUs 6m 58s
—Customer Modifying and Removing OUs 3m 13s
—Managing OU Contents 6m 44s
—Changing OU Structure 3m 40s

Optimizing Performance When Querying Active Directory
- 28m 26s

—Introduction to Optimizing AD Querying 4m 48s
—Demonstration: Optimizing Returned Objects 9m 7s
—Demonstration: Observing Query Impact 6m 58s
—Demonstration: Optimizing Returned Object Properties 6m 38s
—Thanks and Goodbye 0m 53s