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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook If you work on a daily basis with Windows Server 2012, this book will make life easier by teaching you the skills to automate server tasks with PowerShell scripts, all delivered in recipe form for rapid implementation.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849689465
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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EDRICK GOAD EDRICK GOAD
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding PowerShell Scripting 2. Managing Windows Network Services with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing IIS with PowerShell 4. Managing Hyper-V with PowerShell 5. Managing Storage with PowerShell 6. Managing Network Shares with PowerShell 7. Managing Windows Updates with PowerShell 8. Managing Printers with PowerShell 9. Troubleshooting Servers with PowerShell 10. Managing Performance with PowerShell 11. Inventorying Servers with PowerShell 12. Server Backup Index

Searching for and reporting on AD users


Once your AD environment has existed for some time, finding and changing settings in your environment can become difficult. For example, let's say when the domain was first created, all the users had the same logon script named logon.bat. Over time, specific needs arose that caused the creation of logon2.bat, and new_logon.bat, and testlogon.bat, with different users assigned to each script.

As an administrator, you want to consolidate all these logon scripts into one, but you need to know what this will impact. You need to know which logon scripts are being used, who is using which ones, and why the different scripts exist. Thanks to the capabilities of AD and PowerShell queries, these items can easily be found.

In this recipe we will perform multiple queries against Active Directory. We will be returning different information.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to search for and report on AD users:

  1. To report on all users and their logon scripts...

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Windows Server 2012 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook
Published in: Mar 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849689465
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