An AD Bulk Administration Utility

IT administrators face a great deal of Active Directory management challenges. AD administrators and IT managers mostly have to perform repetitive and mundane tasks which often end up eating into their productive time. Configuring object properties manually by making use of native tools or PowerShell is extremely time-consuming, tiresome, and error-prone, especially in a large and complex Windows network.

This is an AD bulk administration tool for AD administrator to administer a large number of Active Directory users, you can use it to check a large number of users, create a large number of users, reset a large number of users’ passwords, enable or disable a large number of users, set a large number of users’ properties, check groups, add users to group or remove users from group.

PowerShell Day-to-Day Admin Tasks [in a nutshell]

If you are aiming to optimize the use of your time by doing as much as possible via scripting, you will soon want to run scripts in parallel to save time. PowerShell does not demand that you run jobs one after the other; It has the means to launch actions whenever you wish and to obtain the results when you want them.

This article demonstrates how easily a Windows admin can achieve required Dev Ops skills by using Windows Automation Tasks. The article consists of 3 different areas;

  1. How to create PowerShell Scripts using a GUI tool
  2. Pre defined PowerShell script source [revised by Microsoft]
  3. How to Run the Created PS scripts [Task Scheduler & PS to EXE conversion]

Section 1:

LazyWinAdmin is a project released in 2012, a PowerShell Script that generates a GUI/WinForms loaded with tons of functions. This utility is very helpful for anyone managing workstations or servers.

Sections 2:

Here you will find hundreds of pre defined commands written in PowerShell, VB Script, Perl & Python. Only Minor Tweaks will be required, therefore you can use the given compiler to cross check the validity of the commandlets.

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