Manage Active Directory with PowerShell

Online Training II: "Managing Active Directory with PowerShell"
Managing Microsoft Active Directory requires an API level of abstraction that is easy to use and well-integrated with enterprise workflows. Therefore, object-oriented interfaces such as the Active Directory Service Interface were provided early on. To reorganize corporate structures and to easily map staff entries and exits, a separation of the subject level from the programming logic is helpful. The PowerShell provides three layers of processing with Excel, database, web in the frontend, logic-level scripts, and directory service as the administrative goal.

You learn this in the webcast:

• Web service for AD, the "Active Directory" module
  • Create and modify user
  • AD group administration
  • Access to containers (OrganizationalUnits)
• Search in AD: the class "DirectoryServices. DirectorySearcher "
  • Create your own LDAP filter
  • Processing the return values
• LDAP MetaBase
  • Extended attribute queries in AD