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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568457

Length 674 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

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Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7

2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER

3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell

4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise

5. Exploring .NET

6. Managing Active Directory

7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise

8. Implementing Enterprise Security

9. Managing Storage

10. Managing Shared Data

11. Managing Printing

12. Managing Hyper-V

13. Managing Azure

14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell

15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Adding users to AD using a CSV file

Spiceworks (https://www.spiceworks.com/) is an excellent site for IT professionals to learn more and get their problems solved. Spiceworks has a busy PowerShell support forum, which you can access at https://community.spiceworks.com/programming/powershell.

A frequently asked (and answered) question is: How do I add multiple users using an input file? This recipe does just that. You start with a CSV file containing details of the users you are going to add. Then you run this recipe to add the users.

This recipe uses a CSV file of users to add to AD, with a limited set of properties and values. In production, you would most likely extend the information contained in the CSV, based on your business needs and the information you want to store in AD.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1, a domain-joined server on which you have installed PowerShell 7 and VS Code. Log in as Reskit\Administrator. You should also have DC1 and DC2 up...

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Authors (1)

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer based in the UK and has been in the IT business since the late 1960s. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's cloud computing paradigm. In the mid-1970s, he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today. Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times.

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