Practically all of my Powershell scripts use an Active Directory commandlet. Ok, so they use several.\u00a0 I like to query AD to get environmental information so when I run the script, I know what I am working with from an AD perspective. I can\u2019t help it, I\u2019m an AD Guy.<\/p>\n
In order to run the AD commandlets, a Domain Controller in the domain has to be running ADWS (Active Directory Web Services<\/a> aka Active Directory Management Gateway Service). Windows 2008 (and Windows 2008 R2) Domain Controllers run this by default and it is available for Windows 2003 DCs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sometimes, the server I need to run a script on doesn\u2019t have the AD commandlets installed. powershell set-executionpolicy unrestricted Assuming this isn\u2019t possible, there is a way to import-modules available on another server.\u00a0 I often use this with Exchange commandlets since I rarely have them installed on servers I use for running scripts.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how this works\u2026<\/p>\n # Create a Powershell remote session to a server with the #commandlets installed. The code above enables the use of Active Directory commandlets on a server that doesn\u2019t have them installed.<\/p>\n Use AD commandlets in the Powershell command shell with modified names based on the -Prefix set above:<\/p>\n Get-RMAdUser\u00a0 instead of the standard Get-ADUser You can also drop the \u201c-Prefix RM\u201d and it will use the native commandlets using their standard names.<\/p>\n Don Jones calls this Powershell implicit remoting and it is very cool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Practically all of my Powershell scripts use an Active Directory commandlet. Ok, so they use several.\u00a0 I like to query AD to get environmental information so when I run the script, I know what I am working with from an AD perspective. I can\u2019t help it, I\u2019m an AD Guy. In order to run the … <\/p>\n
\nThe quick solution to this is to run the following:<\/p>\n
\npowershell import-module servermanager\u00a0 ;\u00a0 add-windowsfeature rsat-ad-powershell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n$Session = New-PSsession -Computername Server1
\n# Use the newly created remote Powershell session to send a #command to that session
\nInvoke-Command -Command {Import-Module ActiveDirectory} -Session $Session
\n# Use that session with the modules to add the available # commandlets to your existing Powershell command shell with a #new command name prefix.
\nImport-PSSession -Session $Session -Module ActiveDirectory -Prefix RM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nGet-RMAdComputer instead of the standard Get-ADComputer<\/p>\n