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One of the most common tasks any AD administrator must do is querying AD. AD contains tons of useful data that can be available at your fingertips without ever even opening a GUI application. This guidebook will introduce you to querying AD with PowerShell and using the CSVDE and LDIFDE command-line tools to find users, computers, and any other AD object you need.

This ATA Guidebook consists of the following tutorials:

How to Install and Import the PowerShell Active Directory Module
CSVDE and LDIFDE: Managing AD from the Command Line
Learning Active Directory and LDAP Filters in PowerShell
Get-ADObject: Reporting on Active Directory with PowerShell

This eBook is part of the ATA Guidebook series in partnership with adamtheautomator.com. Each ATA Guidebook contains a series of step-by-step tutorials written by industry professionals from across the globe. An ATA Guidebook contains common tutorials written by subject matter experts to help you navigate the complex world of IT.

Whenever a tutorial matching this theme is published on adamtheautomator.com, this eBook will be updated also. ATA Guidebooks are a way to keep up with your favorite ATA tutorials and get similar tutorials grouped together in eBook form with no advertisements.

They are also a way to support adamtheautomator.com and its authors as authors receive 60% of all revenue generated from the sale of this eBook.

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