In this video ASPE Instructor, Tom Carpenter, shows you how to work with Active Directory from Windows PowerShell. You will learn how to use the New-ADUser cmdlet to create a user, you will see how to set the password with the Set-ADAccountPassword cmdlet and then you will move on to explore group memberships with the Get-ADGroup, Get-ADGroupMember and Set-ADGroupMember cmdlets. Finally, you will learn to enable created user accounts with the Enable-ADAccount cmdlet.

After viewing this video, you will be able to effectively create accounts and set group memberships from the PowerShell interface.