Chapter 6. Advanced AD Operations Using PowerShell
As the title suggests, you will learn about performing some of the advanced Active Directory operations using PowerShell in this chapter. Windows administrators who manage Active Directory environments can leverage the contents of this chapter to automate some of these advanced operations and perform troubleshooting. In large complex environments, these operations are pretty frequent and common, which calls for automation to save everyone's time.
While PowerShell can be used for performing many high-level operations in Active Directory, this chapter will focus on the following common and frequently used topics that are helpful to most administrators:
- Installing a new domain
- Adding additional domain controllers
- Obtaining replication status of Active Directory
- Managing fine-grained password policies
- Transferring FSMO roles
- Restoring deleted objects
- Demoting domain controllers and removing domains
Let's see how we can achieve these...
