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AD Cmdlets RTM

Dec 21

Written by: Dmitry Sotnikov
12/21/2007 1:00 PM

We kind of kept sticking to the fashion of perpetual betas for quite some time now (since the first 1.0 beta released late March through the RC 1.0.5 this fall) and we feel that the product is now feature rich and stable enough for us to drop the beta label.

In the coming weeks I’ll blog more about the cmdlets features and the changes compared to the RC build but for now, here’s a quick list:

User account management:

Set-QADUser Unlock-QADUser Disable-QADUser Deprovision-QADUser Enable-QADUser New-QADUser Get-QADUser

Plus a few common ones:

Move-QADObject Rename-QADObject Remove-QADObject

Group management:

Set-QADGroup Get-QADGroup New-QADGroup Get-QADGroupMember Add-QADGroupMember Remove-QADGroupMember

Move, Rename, Remove obviously also apply:
Move-QADObject Rename-QADObject Remove-QADObject

Managing computer accounts:

Get-QADComputer Set-QADObject Move-QADObject Rename-QADObject Remove-QADObject New-QADObject

OUs and other objects:

Set-QADObject Move-QADObject Rename-QADObject Remove-QADObject New-QADObject Get-QADObject

Fine-Grained Password Policies:

New-QADPasswordSettingsObject Get-QADPasswordSettingsObject Add-QADPasswordSettingsObjectAppliesTo Remove-QADPasswordSettingsObjectAppliesTo

Selecting DC/domain/ADAM instance/ARS proxy or supplying alternate credentials:

Connect-QADService Disconnect-QADService

Auxiliary cmdlets to make life easier:

Convert-QADAttributeValue Set-QADPSSnapinSettings Set-QADPSSnapinSettings

It is more or less the same list we had in RC (with one new cmdlet and a few improvements and bugfixes in the others - and finally full PowerShell v2 compatibility ;)), but the EULA change alone (not a beta any more!) is probably worth making the upgrade all by itself!

And did I say that despite the RTM status AD cmdlets still remain free? Any reason for not going to the site right away and getting them?