ActiveRoles Management Console for Active Directory

Both my friends Dmitry and Bob have written about the RC1 release of the Management Console for Active Directory that is based on Quest's Active Roles product and built on PowerShell. I've copied the info direct from Bob's blog...

We just shipped RC1 of our Active Directory (and ADAM) managment commands for PowerShell. Congratulations to our awsome dev team... See below for details of what we provide for free by simply downloading our CMDLETs from http://www.quest.com/activeroles-server/arms.aspx.


CMDLETS at a Glance
Windows Server 2008 CMDLETS 1-4
General Object Management CMDLETS 5-11
Group Management CMDLETS 12-17
Computer Management CMDLET 18
User Management CMDLETS 19-24

CMDLETS Description

***Manage Windows 2008 Password Policy
1. Add-QADPasswordSettingsObjectAppliesTo
Add PSO links on a Password Settings object. Windows Server 2008 is required.

2. Get-QADPasswordSettingsObject
Retrieve Password Settings objects that match the specified conditions. Windows Server 2008 is required.

3. New-QADPasswordSettingsObject
Create a new Password Settings object (PSO). Windows Server 2008 is required.

4. Remove-QADPasswordSettingsObjectAppliesTo
Remove PSO links on a Password Settings object. Windows Server 2008 is required.

*** Object Management
5. Move-QADObject
Move the specified object to a different location (container) in Active Directory.

6. Remove-QADObject
Delete the specified objects in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

7. Rename-QADObject
Change the name of the specified object in Active Directory.

8. Get-QADObject
Retrieve all directory objects in a domain or container that match the specified conditions. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

9. New-QADObject
Create a new object of in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

10. Set-QADObject
Modify attributes of an object in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

11. Convert-QADAttributeValue
Convert attribute values of a directory object to the specified .NET type.

***Group Management
12. Set-QADGroup
Modify attributes of a group in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

13. Add-QADGroupMember
Add one or more objects to a group in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

14. Get-QADGroup
Retrieve all groups in a domain or container that match the specified conditions. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

15. Get-QADGroupMember
Retrieve the members of a group in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

16. New-QADGroup
Create a new group in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

17. Remove-QADGroupMember
Remove one or more members from a group in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

***Computer Management
18. Get-QADComputer
Retrieve all computer objects in a domain or container that match the specified conditions.
(This command looks lonely...)

*** Users Management
19. Get-QADUser
Retrieve all users in a domain or container that match the specified conditions. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

20. Enable-QADUser
Enable a user account in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

21. Disable-QADUser
Disable a user account in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

22. Unlock-QADUser
Unlock a user account in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

23. New-QADUser
Create a new user account in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

24. Set-QADUser
Modify attributes of a user account in Active Directory. Supported are both Active Directory Doman Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS).

***Other
25. Get-QADPSSnapinSettings
View default settings that apply to all cmdlets of this PowerShell snap-in.

26. Set-QADPSSnapinSettings
Modify default settings that apply to all cmdlets of this PowerShell snap-in.

27. Connect-QADService
Connect to the ActiveRoles Server Administration Service via the ActiveRoles Server ADSI Provider, or to a certain Active Directory domain controller or a certain server running an Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instance via the regular LDAP ADSI Provider.

28. Disconnect-QADService
Close the connection, if any exists. A connection could be established by using the Connect-QADService cmdlet.

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