PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials

PowerShell and Active Directory essentials is an in-depth series of video lessons and tutorials that teach you how to automate Active Directory tasks using PowerShell.

This course will help you learn PowerShell all while applying your newly learned skill to a real world problem: Active Directory automation and reporting.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
6:31 Getting Started
29:43 Objects
47:17 Scripts vs. Modules
1:18:29 GUI vs. PowerShell
1:31:36 AD Health Check Getting Started
1:37:32 The Active Directory Module
1:45:40 The Active Directory Provider
1:52:08 PowerShell Functions
2:05:14 Working with Computer Accounts
2:11:09 Working with User Acccounts
2:20:11 Working with Groups
2:32:18 Filtering
2:50:31 Using the Search-AdAccount Command
2:57:27 Putting it All Together
3:07:24 Hands-Free AD Health
3:08:46 Parsing Command Line Output
3:20:38 DCDiag
3:36:16 Replication Monitoring
3:46:59 RODC Cached Passwords
3:53:21 PowerShell Remoting
4:01:17 Reading Critical AD Database
4:14:08 Building Reports
4:15:06 Working with HTML
4:23:46 Advanced HTML Manipulation
4:36:53 PowerShell Code Cleanup
4:49:43 Building Scheduled Tasks
4:57:48 Sending Email with PowerShell
5:01:13 Wrap Up

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[prakashale]

Well explained please make more videos for O365 and Azure AD

[jjhatnm]

Super grateful for this, other than one thing. So many instructors use the bottom of the screen when sharing examples with PowerShell. Anytime you pause the video, the YouTube player controls overlay the bottom of the screen making the examples hard to see.

[cwalktech]

Thank you so much! I am currently going through your video for my studies. I love it. Well explained!!

[donaldhunt]

I've watched 5 minutes and you have worked me up into a frenzy, I'm very excited about your video! You have a pleasant voice, It's very important for the voice to not be annoying. I can't wait to sit through over 5 hours of powershell!

[JJ-skfj]

Great Video, thank you for sharing your own expert ways of thinking and doing things.

[shrikantg]

Thanks for uploading this very much helpful .

[lwa.dev]

Thanks for the content on powershell & AD :-)

[DocKotoga]

This was a really great course and I'm sure I will rewatch several parts to copy the used techniques to create my own scripts.
Maybe I've missed it, but what helped me a lot on my start in powershell was the shortcut _strg + space_ after the "-" of a cmdlet parameter to show all possible parameters at once without tabbing through all of them :)

[duladrop]

Appreciate your effort in sharing this video...

[DarkLitening]

Hi, do you have a link to the code examples that I can use to follow through a little easier?

[zeffevnon]

this is great content except WHY WINDOWS 8.1

[spykelee]

did anyone else check their audio when they turned it off or was it just me?

[schweineful]

You example with creating users shows us, who bad the MS tool for administrating an AD is, not how good powershell is (btw., I love all shells). A good and usable tool would give you the means to import a CSV.
MS own GUI just sucks.

[komailbutt]

You have to explain AD in the first place.

[schweineful]

Why do you compare PowerShell to bash? Compare it to CMD. Most of your audience do not even know what bash is.