From the course: Advanced PowerShell: Automating Active Directory Administration

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Advanced scripts you can use for managing AD

Advanced scripts you can use for managing AD

From the course: Advanced PowerShell: Automating Active Directory Administration

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Advanced scripts you can use for managing AD

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- [Instructor] Besides creating your own scripts and downloading from other locations, you can download scripts from various authors at GitHub. GitHub is a site that was purchased by Microsoft many years ago, and it allows various different developers and programmers to upload code and then track their changes. And it allows people to go in and download in certain cases. In other cases, you'll need to pay for it. So what we can do inside GitHub is do a search for what it is we're looking for. So you can type in Active Directory scripts, and you should see a list of various different scripts that you can use. One of these scripts that I want to demonstrate is going to be the ActiveDirectoryCreateUser. So you can see it is going to be a PowerShell script to easily create new users in AD and send out email confirmations. Once you're inside GitHub and you find the script that you'd like, you can see a ps1, or PowerShell script,…

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