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Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  Windows Server 2016 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787122048
Pages 660 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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 Ed Goad Ed Goad
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. What's New in PowerShell and Windows Server 2. Implementing Nano Server 3. Managing Windows Updates 4. Managing Printers 5. Managing Server Backup 6. Managing Performance 7. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2016 8. Managing Windows Networking Services 9. Managing Network Shares 10. Managing Internet Information Server 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Using Desired State Configuration

Reporting on AD users


In this recipe, you generate a report on the users in your AD. Because the range of things you might wish to report on, the first step in this recipe defines a function: Get-ReskitUser. This function collects a range of information from the AD and returns it as a custom object. This approach allows you to customize this recipe further, for example reaching into Exchange, SharePoint, or Skype for Business and add additional properties to the object generated that Get-Reskituser returns. The recipe uses the Get-ReskitUser function and creates a report on aspects of the users in AD.

Getting ready

This recipe relies on having users defined and active. The users added using previous recipes serves as a good base. You should use a client system, have the users in your AD and log on to the computer. Also ensure that the LastLogonDate AD attribute for the computer is populated fully. Populating other fields, such as Office would also be useful to make the reporting a bit more...

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