Adam's AD Admin

Manage Shadow Group Membership - PowerShell Function I looked at a quick script to update a shadow group here , and then thought, this would make a good function. I have used my function template (refer to that post if you want to know more about how to format a function), to build up a reusable script to update group membership based on user and computer object location in AD. A traditional shadow group is all members of an OU. In my mind, there are a few assumptions to this statement. Being that you have taken the time to create an OU, put objects in it, and created a group to mirror those objects, you probably have only 1 type of object (i.e. user) and they are all similar in some respect (i.e. same office location). This function takes that in mind and only updates groups with users or computers - not other groups etc. Moving away from the traditional meaning of shadow group, I have added (for my own benefit as I required the functionality) a parameter to change the searchsco...

Powershell v2 Function Template Powershell v2 has updated what you can do with creating functions over Powershell V1. The whole function experience has been updated to a cmdlet like feel with error handling, parameter validation, help creation and of course, tab completion! The following is a bare bones template that I've commented inline for easy reading! function new-template { <# .SYNOPSIS    Brief description of what the function does .DESCRIPTION    A better description .NOTES    Function Name : new-template    Author : Adam Stone    Requires : PowerShell V2 .LINK    http://adadmin.blogspot.com/ .EXAMPLE    Simple usage    PS C:\> new-template -args values .EXAMPLE    Simple usage    PS C:\> new-template -args values values etc .PARAMETER first    A description of the first parameter .PARAMETER targetdomain    A description of the ...