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Using PowerShell to create and manage AD DS objects

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Using PowerShell to create and manage AD DS objects

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- One of the tools that we can use to help create Active Directory objects, whether be through a scripting mechanism, or through one offs, creating a single user object, computer object, or a group or an organizational unit object is the use of PowerShell. PowerShell is Microsoft's new command line utility in Windows Server 2012. It's actually version three of PowerShell. But the Cmdlets that we used in version two are the exact same cmdlets. So in this session, we're going to be looking at how to create and manage organizational units with PowerShell. We are going to be looking at the, the help for creating those OUs. We're going to be looking at how to create and manage user objects. We'll be looking at how to create and manage computer objects, and then we'll finish up at looking how to create and manage our group objects. So we're going to be looking at, basically how to create our basic types of objects in our Active Directory environment. So with that said, the first object we…

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