Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

PowerShell and Active Directory

PowerShell is an automated framework that provides system administrators with many capabilities to perform tasks. It supports the scripting language. Every command in the script is called a cmdlet. You can build your own cmdlets using the .NET programming language. An explanation is given here:

To check out a forest, you can use the get-adforest cmdlet, as shown:

To check all the commands type: Get-Command, as shown:

To check the domains, you can use Get-ADDomain, as shown:

To check the trust of the forest, ...