Using Powershell to Manage your Active Directory User Accounts

I will not end my quest to enlighten you all of the power of the command line 🙂

Using Powershell 2 and the Active Directory Cmdlets that ship with the 2008 Remote Server Administration Tools, managing your AD Users becomes very easy without the need of third part modules. In this video we look at creating an OU, user, adding the user to a group and resetting the password. For completeness we reverse the process and delete the user and OU.

New-AdOrganizationalUnit -Name TAB -Path "dc=tup,dc-local"

New-ADUser -Name JDoe -GivenName John -Surname Doe -Enable $true -Path "ou=tab,dc=tup,dc-local" -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "Pa$$w0rd"

Add-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" JDoe

Get-ADgroupMember "Domain Admins"

Set-ADAccountPassword JDoe -Reset

Remove-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" JDoe

Remove-ADUser JDoe

Set-ADorganizationUnit "ou=tab,dc=tup,dc-local" -ProtectFromAccidentalDeletion $false

Remove-ADorganizationUnit "ou=tab,dc=tup,dc-local"