Automating Active Directory® Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

Understand How PowerShell and Active Directory Work Together

Now that you have a basic understanding of PowerShell, let's take a closer look at how Active Directory and PowerShell work together. First we're going to look at the different ways you can interact with Active Directory using PowerShell, and then we'll discuss what you have to do to configure your environment so you can use the scripts and techniques discussed in this book.

Interact with Active Directory Using PowerShell

Active Directory provides several different protocols and methods for users to interact with it. Traditionally, when you used other scripting and programming languages to interact with Active Directory, you had a choice of techniques. In PowerShell, there are two ways ...