The windows server environment is a necessary part of any Microsoft domain
If you've ever needed to create an LDAP aware powershell script, well you're in luck. You can use any .Net namespace within a powershell script. In this article you will find various functions that I have written to work with an LDAP directory.
The purpose of this function is to return a simple object of key/value pairs that you can reference in other parts of your application without connecting to the directory again.
Using the same database, for use primarily in Windows environments, Active Directory also allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an organization. Active Directory stores information and settings in a central database.
As a Jack-of-most-trades at my place of full time employment, I had a project come across my desk recently that had me learning Microsoft Windows Powershell at break-neck speeds. We had a Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration task, that was a bit muddier than normal. Our group was tasked with doing a managed cross-forrest migration that needed to also synchronize our LDAP server. We needed to provision, migrate, synchronize two active directory domains, and our Enterprise LDAP system. To do this seemlessly, there really was only one option, you guessed it...
