Administration and Automation with Windows PowerShell
Course Introduction • 5min
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Getting Started with Windows PowerShell • 42min
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The Basics of PowerShell
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Installing and Updating PowerShell
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The Text Based Console Part 1- An Overview
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Text Based Console Part 2 - An Overview
Video | 5 min
The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 1
Video | 5 min
The ISE (Intelligent Scripting Environment) Part 2
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Use the OGV Command to Easily View console data!
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Getting Help and Finding Commands • 39min
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 1
Video | 7 min
Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 2
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Getting Help and Finding Commands Part 3
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Help System LAB Questions
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Help System Lab Answers 1-4
Video | 9 min
Help System Lab Answers 5-9
Video | 10 min
PowerShell Command Syntax • 33min
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Command Syntax Part 1
Video | 8 min
Command Syntax Part 2
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Command Syntax Part 3
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Command Syntax Lab Questions
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Command Syntax Lab Answers
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PowerShell Objects and Properties • 35min
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 1
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Objects, Properties and Methods Part 2
Video | 8 min
Objects, Properties and Methods Part 3
Video | 7 min
Questions 1-9 for Objects, Properties and Methods
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Answers to Questions 1-7 O-P-M
Video | 11 min
Answers to Questions 8,9 O-P-M
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The PowerShell Pipeline • 24min
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PowerShell Providers • 30min
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What are PowerShell Providers
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Using PS Drive
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PowerShell Provider CMDlets -1
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PowerShell Providers CMDlets -2
Video | 7 min
Student Assignments
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PowerShell Arrays and Variables • 28min
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PowerShell Variables
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PowerShell Arrays
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PowerShell Variables Challenge
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PowerShell Variables Solution
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PowerShell Loops • 19min
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PowerShell Conditional Statements • 11min
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On Premises Lab Setup • 36min
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Should You Watch This Section?
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Downloading and Installing VirtualBox
Video | 2 min
Downloading Windows Server 2019
Video | 3 min
Creating Your Virtual Network
Video | 2 min
Creating Your Virtual Machines
Video | 7 min
Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
Video | 2 min
Installing Windows Server
Video | 8 min
Installing the Active Directory Domain Services Role
Video | 10 min
Basic Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell • 2hr 27min
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Configuring PowerShell Execution Policy with Group Policy
Video | 13 min
Installing Windows Server Roles and Features with Powershell
Video | 6 min
Running Powershell Scripts as Scheduled Tasks
Video | 8 min
Creating Organizational Units with Powershell
Video | 11 min
Creating and Managing Active Directory User Accounts with PowerShell
Video | 19 min
Move all AD Users in a Group to a Specific Organizational Unit
Video | 7 min
Generate a list of AD Users and their OU
Video | 5 min
PowerShell Splatting
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Bulk Install Windows MSU Files Automatically with PowerShell
Video | 13 min
Lab: Domain Administration with Windows PowerShell
Lab | 60 min
Send Emails with PowerShell • 22min
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Send Emails from Gmail with PowerShell
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Create Password Expiration Notification Script
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Basics • 1hr 48min
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DSC Overview
Video | 9 min
Enabling PSRemoting with Group Policy
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The DSC Resource Kit
Video | 7 min
Configuring The Local Config Manager for DSC Push
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Uninstalling Windows Features with DSC
Video | 9 min
Lab: Desired State Configuration (DSC)
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Course Conclusion • 1min
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Move all AD Users in a Group to a Specific Organizational Unit
In this lecture, we are going to be learning how to move the Active Directory members of a particular group to a specific Organizational Unit.
Now, in our case and what we are going to demo here, we are only moving three Active Directory Users, so it might be just a little easier to just do it by hand using the Graphical User Interface.
However, if you are working in a situation where you have one hundred user accounts that are part of a specific group and you need to move them to another OU, and you don’t know exactly where all the user accounts are located it’s much more efficient to use PowerShell to do this.
So, let’s go ahead and get started by looking at what we are going to be doing.
In this case, I am on my server here IPDC01 and what I am going to do is click on Tools from Server Manager and launch Active Directory Users and Computers.

I have this structure set up where I have an Organizational Unit called InstructorPaul, and inside this, I have Domain Users, Domain Workstations, and Member Servers.
Now, if I expand Domain Users OU I have another OU called Domain Admins. Here is Paul Hill and Robert Hill. These two are members of the Domain Administrators group.

However, if I go under the Users container, and I double-click on Administrator.

And, I click on the Member Of tab.

I can see that this user is also a member of the Domains Admins group.
So, in this particular scenario what I want to do is I want to move all the Domain Admins to the Domain Admins Organizational Unit.
Now, if you don’t have the same OU structure that’s fine, you can just create it now.
You can create some user accounts inside of this OU by right-clicking it and selecting New > User, and then make sure you add them under Member Of to the Domain Admins group.

So, now what we are going to do is launch PowerShell by clicking on the Start button and typing powershell.
Now, we have the option of selecting Windows PowerShell and Windows PowerShell ISE. This is a single line command, is not a complicated script so you don’t need to launch the Windows PowerShell ISE but whatever you choose to use you need to launch it as an Administrator.
So, I am going to right-click on Windows PowerShell and right-click and select Run as administrator.

Click Yes on the User Account Control window.

Again, if you use the Windows PowerShell ISE that’s perfectly fine.
So, the first thing we need to do is type Import-Module Active Directory and press Enter.

Now that’s done let’s run Get-Help Get-ADGroupMember and press Enter.
We can see all the information about this command.

Here we have in the SYNTAX of the command Get-ADGroupMember and -Identity and the identity of the Group. Now, you don’t need to type -Identity you can just type the group name in quotation marks. Then we can do Credentials, the Auth type, and things like that.
One of the things I think is important with this command is the -Recursive type. If we choose -Recursive what is going to happen is we are going to specify a Group, and if that Group has also other Groups inside of it, it will search that group also kind of a nested search.
We are not going to be doing that, we are going to be grabbing all of the members of the Administrator group.
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