COMP2101

COMP2101 - Administrative Shell Scripting - Working With Active Directory In Powershell

Introduction

In this lesson, we look at accessing some of the information kept in Active Directory and how to manipulate it from Powershell.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will:

• know how to retrieve some kinds of information from Active Directory
• know how to modify data in active directory using Powershell

These objectives are in support of Learning Outcome 1 in the Course Outline.

To do List

• Watch the videos from youtube showing powershell automating common tasks involving active directory
• Try some of the examples if you have access to an AD domain, asking questions if you have any

Lesson Material

• Playlist of tutorials on using powershell to automate common tasks involving Active Directory - videos 18-28 in the playlist

Learning Activity

Watch the videos for this module.

Graded Activity

This lab is not graded or marked, it is academic only.

Quiz

There is no quiz for this lesson, it is academic only.

Summary

In this module, you have been introduced to working with powershell to automate common tasks in Active Directory management. The tasks you should now be capable of include:

• retrieving some kinds of information from Active Directory
• modifying data in active directory using Powershell