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Working with PowerShell snap-ins

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Working with PowerShell snap-ins

- PowerShell comes with a set of cmdlets, but not all the cmdlets for all the products that you're gonna wanna work with. So, one of the questions that everyone has and I've run across is, "How do I get the cmdlets "for other products?" Or, "How do I extend the cmdlets that I have?" And it's not that difficult of a process, but let's see here. You've seen this before. You've seen the MMC, right? Because this concept is how this is gonna work. I'm gonna add something to this snap-in. File, Add/Remove Snap-in, and then I get a list and I'm sure you've used this countless times. You can add in all your tools here. The reason for this is so that you don't have to go directly to a server, an RDP to a server, which is bad. So you can have the tools running on your local box. I want you to notice some of my snap-ins though. I know they're kind of small to read, but notice I have some Active Directory snap-ins. There's a reason for that. I have Active Directory once because I installed the…

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