PowerShell for Administration — Lesson 2: Active Directory and Identity Automation

Learning Objectives

• Manage users, groups, computers, organizational units, and attributes
• Automate provisioning, lifecycle changes, reporting, and validation
• Apply permissions, credentials, delegated administration, and audit practices

Detailed Topics

• Manage users: Manage users, groups, computers, organizational units, and attributes
• Automate provisioning: Automate provisioning, lifecycle changes, reporting, and validation
• Apply permissions: Apply permissions, credentials, delegated administration, and audit practices

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Build a controlled Active Directory user-lifecycle automation script.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Active Directory and Identity Automation in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.