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Administration and Automation with Windows PowerShell

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Course Introduction

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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell

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Getting Help and Finding Commands

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PowerShell Command Syntax

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PowerShell Objects and Properties

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The PowerShell Pipeline

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PowerShell Providers

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PowerShell Arrays and Variables

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PowerShell Loops

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PowerShell Conditional Statements

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On Premises Lab Setup

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Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell

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Send Emails with PowerShell

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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics

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PowerShell Modules

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Powershell Challenges

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Section Overview
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The Trusted Hosts List Challenge
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The Trusted Hosts List Answer
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Starting a Remote Session Challenge
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Starting a Remote Session Answer
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Rename a Computer Challenge
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Rename a Computer Answer
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Challenge
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Change a Password on a Remote Computer Answer
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine Challenge
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How to Copy Files To-From a Remote Machine using VSC Answer
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Challenge
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How to Export Logs to a CSV File Answer
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell
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How to Create Multiple Folders on the Host Machine using Powershell Answer
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Who Rebooted the Server ID1074 Challenge
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Who Rebooted the Server
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Challenge
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How can you get Info on all your Hard Drives Answer
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How can I get a list of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Challenge
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How can I get a List of CPU's and Installed Printers, Last Boot-up Time Answer
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How can I Automate Tasks with Task Scheduler Challenge
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Generate a list of AD Users and their OU

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In this lecture, we are going to use Windows PowerShell to generate a list of AD Users in their respective Organizational Units. This was a request by a student and I always love creating content that you guys want!

To get started, we will use the Get-ADUser command. We are required to pass a filter, and in this case I am going to use “*” with the quotes as my filter:

Get-ADUser -filter “*”

This returns all of the Active Directory users in our domain. We could use the “DistinguishedName” property to find their OU, but that isn’t the most human readable. There is another property that might work better called the “CanonicalName”. We can include this property by using the “-properties CanonicalName” parameter.

Get-ADUser -filter “*” -properties CanonicalName

We can see that this returns an easier-to-read path. So now we need to filter the results so we only get what information we want. I am going to pipe the above command to the select-object select the objects Name, SamAccountName, CanonicalName, and Enabled:

Get-ADUser -filter “*” -properties CanonicalName | select-object Name, SamAccountName, CanonicalName, Enabled

Now we have our list of users and their OU location. If we want to export this we can again pipe the output of this command to the Export-CSV command like so:

Get-ADUser -filter “*” -properties CanonicalName | select-object Name, SamAccountName, CanonicalName, Enabled | Export-CSV -Path “C:\ADUsers.csv”

The CSV file looks like this:

If you add -NoTypeInformation your CSV file will not include the first line:

Get-ADUser -filter “*” -properties CanonicalName | select-object Name, SamAccountName, CanonicalName, Enabled | Export-CSV -Path “C:\ADUsers.csv” -NoTypeInformation

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