Essential PowerShell

Chapter 17. Directory Services

In This Chapter:
Overview of Directory Services Access	313
Managing Users and Groups Using WMI	314
System.DirectoryServices and the ADSI Adapter	315
Deficiencies in the ADSI Adapter	321
Object Identification in Directory Services (Directory Services Paths)	323
Overview of the Common Programming Tasks	325

Access to the local user database and Active Directory is one of the most common tasks for administrators in medium and large companies. This chapter and the following three chapters cover this important topic. First, in this chapter, you learn the basic concepts of Directory Services programming within Windows PowerShell (WPS). Chapter 18, “User and Group Management in the Active Directory,” covers user and group management ...