Automating Active Directory® Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

INTRODUCTION

The goal of this book is to give you the information you need to know in order to use PowerShell for managing, configuring, and scripting tasks in Active Directory. In many cases, we didn't seek to answer your deepest and darkest questions about Active Directory. Instead, our attempt is to give you a practical guide that you'll refer to frequently and that will become your administrative companion.

You'll find that this book contains a lot of information that is useful for Active Directory (AD) administration even outside of the PowerShell world. We've brought many years of AD experience to the table, and I'd venture to say that among all the authors, we've probably seen about every AD scenario there is. Most of us regularly give ...