AD PowerPack for PowerGUI

A powerpack for Active Directory is now available for PowerGUI

Most system administrators will be familiar with PowerGUI, the free interface that provides a GUI Front end to a number of Powershell based commands. It includes a dedicated Powershell syntax editor where you can construct scripts and execute them directly.

You can read Dick Beddoe's review of PowerGUI here.

Quest has recently released a PowerPack that extends the PowerGUI admin console with a set of nodes, links and actions that allow you to manage Active Directory. It is included as part of the core PowerGUI product.

• Connect to any Active Directory deployment that you have access to from your current location.
• Use your current user credentials or alternate credentials when connecting to Active Directory.
• Customise the default properties that are returned for each Active Directory object type. This includes generic, user, group, computer, and password settings objects.
• Globally configure the page size that will be used and the maximum number of items that should be retrieved by any Active Directory queries done using the Active Directory PowerPack.
• Configure whether you want the objects returned to come only from the domain you connect to or from all domains in the forest to which that domain belongs.
• Add individual Active Directory domains that you want to manage with the account that you use to manage those domains so that you can manage those domains every time you use the PowerPack.
• Search the current Active Directory domain you are connected to or the entire forest to which it belongs for objects by type and/or name.
• Retrieve and manage users, groups, computers, OUs, locked users, disabled users, expired users, security groups, distribution lists, empty groups, domain controllers and Exchange servers for any domain that you connect to or manage.

PowerGUI and the AD PowerPack can be downloaded here.