Top 10 Cool Things You Can Automate in AD with PowerShell

Security requires a lot of mundane, repetitive chores and hunting for needles in a haystack. PowerShell is an awesome way to automate those chores and in this webinar I’ll help you break into PowerShell and focus on automatic security related tasks with it.

And that’s where the Free PowerShell Commands for Active Directory come in – also known as the ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory.  These are extra PowerShell commands that help you automate common, repetitive and bulk management tasks for Active Directory, such as creating, removing or updating objects in AD.

Things like:

• User account creation and disabling
• Group membership changes
• Finding all users with old passwords
• Finding dormant user accounts
• Finding users not required to change their password
• Securing local admin accounts

But there are some tasks you can’t automate with any script no matter how sick, fresh or tight it is.  For instance tasks like data owner approvals, entitlement requests and attestation are workflow intensive.  Then there are data flows of identity information between systems like HR and Active Directory that, yes, you can automate with scripts but that often leads to a house of cards created from fragile scripts that break when any little thing changes.  Then you have to figure out what script isn’t running, where it is, who wrote it and are they still here.