Windows PowerShell™ 2.0 Best Practices

Chapter 3. Survey of Active Directory Capabilities

• Creating Users, Groups, and Organizational Units 66

• Creating Objects 67

• Deriving the Create Object Pattern 75

• Configuring the Connection to the Database 81

• Modifying Properties 88

• Additional Resources 97

Active Directory Domain Services provides security as well as storage of network objects, such as users, groups, and computers, to distributed networks built on Windows Server-based operating systems beginning with Microsoft Windows Server 2000. You may have referred to Active Directory Domain Services in the past as simply Active Directory. Active Directory is now considered to be a legacy term. Any network administrator will need to work with Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI). In fact, many ...