In late June or early July, a new version of the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS will be released. I wanted to give everyone a teaser about the new features to be added. Here you go! - Certificate management - Support for cross-domain group membership - inactive accounts enumeration - single command to search in multiple [...]
I have had a lot of questions about when the next version of the ActiveRoles Management Shell for AD (a.k.a. Quest AD CMDLETs) would be released. I don’t have an exact date, but I wanted everyone to know that we are working on our next release and should have a beta in the next 60 [...]
Along with the release of ActiveRoles Server 6.5 we have also updated the Active Directory PowerShell CMDLETS. This release will continue to work with the supported versions of Active Directory as it has in the past. When you are using PowerShell with ActiveRoles Server it is only compatible with ActiveRoles Server version 6.5 and no [...]
While I’ve been here in Berlin at the Quest TEC conference, I have received several questions about when the next version of the Quest AD CMDLETS will be available. Version 1.3 is in the works and we should have a public preview version in the next month or so – so stay tuned.
In the morning tomorrow I depart for Berlin Germany to attend the Quest European TEC conference. While there we are holding our first ever EMEA ActiveRoles Server User Group meeting where we will be talking about the next release and some future product directions. The User Group will be held at the tail end of [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov wrote a great article on how to locate large groups in Active Directory using PowerShell. In the example script he shows how you can use the free ActiveRoles AD CMDLETS to locate the largest groups in Active Directory. Read Dmitry’s Blog Here
Versions 6.0.x and 6.1 of ActiveRoles Server are approval aware, but working with approval tasks can be tricky. One of the most frequent requests was to perform custom reporting or automation of approval workflow; unfortunately this did not ship with ActiveRoles itself. In June we released an updated version of the ActiveRoles Management Shell for [...]
Dmitry Sotnikov’s blog has a great entry on how you can use ActiveRoles Server to audit changes made to Active Directory that are being done with PowerShell. http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/audit-powershell-changes-in-ad/
We are getting very-very close to shipping version 1.2.2 of the Active Directory CMDLETS. This release will improve compatiblity with Quest’s PowerGUI graphical interface for PowerShell. Check back between now and friday for an announcment about our release.
I had the great opportunity last week to participate in the PowerScripting pod cast. Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg host the show and made talking about the projects I have been involved with at Quest and outside of Quest – both easy an fun. Primarily I was on the show to talk about the ActiveRoles [...]
