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Active Directory with PowerShell

Learn to configure and manage Active Directory using PowerShell in an efficient and smart way

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are looking to automate repetitive tasks in Active Directory management using the PowerShell module, then this book is for you. Any experience in PowerShell would be an added advantage.

    What you will learn

    • Manage user and computer accounts using PowerShell
    • Automate group membership additions, removals, and bulk operations using PowerShell
    • Perform various query operations against Active Directory to fetch user, computer, and group details in an efficient and faster way
    • Understand how sites, subnets, and domains are managed
    • Perform advanced operations such as Domain Controller promotion/demotion
    • Discover how to automate replication checks, fine grained password policy creation, and FSMO roles transfer/seize using PowerShell
    • Get to know more about DNS server management, record creation/modification/ deletion, and DNS client management with PowerShell
    • Find out ways to automate DFSN and DFSR installation and configuration using PowerShell

    Who this book is for

    If you are looking to automate repetitive tasks in Active Directory management using the PowerShell module, then this book is for you. Any experience in PowerShell would be an added advantage.

    Table of Contents

    1. Let's get started
    2. Managing User and Computer accounts
    3. Working with Groups and memberships
    4. Configuring Group Policies
    5. Managing Domains, OUs, and Sites
    6. Advanced AD Operations using PowerShell
    7. Management of DFS and DFSR using Powershell
    8. Managing AD DNS using PowerShell
    9. Miscellaneous Scripts and Resources for Further Learning
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78217-600-8
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 230