ADEssentials

To install

Install-Module -Name ADEssentials -AllowClobber -Force

Force and AllowClobber aren't necessary, but they do skip errors in case some appear.

And to update

Update-Module -Name ADEssentials

That's it. Whenever there's a new version, you run the command, and you can enjoy it. Remember that you may need to close, reopen PowerShell session if you have already used module before updating it.

The essential thing is if something works for you on production, keep using it till you test the new version on a test computer. I do changes that may not be big, but big enough that auto-update may break your code. For example, small rename to a parameter and your code stops working! Be responsible!

Useful resources

Following links contain description of some of the features possible with this module

• Visually display Active Directory Nested Group Membership using PowerShell
• Visually display Active Directory Trusts using PowerShell
• Active Directory DFS Health Check with PowerShell
• Four commands to help you track down insecure LDAP Bindings before March 2020

Changelog

• 0.0.102 - 8.11.2020

  • Updated libraries
  • 0.0.100 was removed from PSGallery due to PSGallery issues

• 0.0.100 - 29.10.2020

  • Get-WinADForestObjectsConflict removed
  • Get-WinADForestObjectsConflict added as alias to Get-WinADDuplicateObject
  • Improved Get-WinADDuplicateObject
  • Get-WinADDuplicateObject expanded with parameters NoPostProcessing, Extended, ExcludeObjectClass, IncludeObjectClass

• 0.0.99 - 14.10.2020

  • Fix for Show-WinADTrust

• 0.0.98 - 05.10.2020

  • Added parameters SelfOnly / AdditionalStatistics to Get-WinADGroupMember
    • This shows maximum level of nesting on Self object, nested groups count, nested security groups count, nested distribution groups copunt

• 0.0.97 - 30.09.2020

  • Update to Repair-WinADEmailAddress treating proxy addresses case sensitive
    • Replacement for Sort-Object -Unique which removes primary SMTP: if it's duplicate of smtp:

• 0.0.96 - 30.09.2020

  • Update to Repair-WinADEmailAddress
    • Fixes Primary Proxy Email if it's missing but not requested by user

• 0.0.95 - 30.09.2020

  • Update to Repair-WinADEmailAddress
    • Added ability to add secondary email addresses
    • Added ability to not change primary email address

• 0.0.94 - 28.09.2020

  • Show-WinADGroupMember support for input from Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.93 - 23.09.2020

  • Added detection of indirect circular to Get-WinADGroupMember to prevent infinite loops
  • Renamed Circular to DirectCircular to accomodate IndirectCircular in Get-WinADGroupMember
  • Updated Show-WinADGroupMember to better visualize circular membership

• 0.0.92 - 23.09.2020

  • Some visual improvements to Show-WinADGroupMember/Show-WinADGroupMemberOf
  • Added IncludeObjectTypeName,ExcludeObjectTypeName,IncludeInheritedObjectTypeName,ExcludeInheritedObjectTypeName to Get-ADACL
  • Added ADRightsAsArray to Get-ADACL
  • Added AccessControlType to Get-ADACL
  • Improvements to Get-WinADObject and all cmdlets that rely on it
  • Improvements to Get-ADACL
  • Improvements to PSD1

• 0.0.91 - 14.09.2020

  • Added ability to define own conditions/rules to Show-WinADGroupMember,Show-WinADGroupMemberOf using PSWriteHTML options

• 0.0.90 - 13.09.2020

  • Updates to Get-WinADTrust for better verbose
  • Updates to Show-WinADTrust visual parts
  • Updates to Get-WinADObject for better verbose

• 0.0.89 - 13.09.2020

  • Updates to Get-WinADTrust (Work in progress)
  • Updates to Show-WinADTrust (Work in progress)

• 0.0.88 - 12.09.2020

  • Updates to Get-WinADTrust (Work in progress)
  • Updates to Get-ADObject
  • Updates to Show-WinADTrust (Work in progress)

• 0.0.87 - 12.09.2020

  • Rewritten Get-WinADTrust to use ADSI instead of ActiveDirectory module (Work in progress)
    • Added objects testing, trust testing, included suffix status
    • Added recursive switch
  • Renamed old Get-WinADTrust to Get-WinADTrustLegacy just in case for now
  • Added Show-WinADTrust (Work in progress)

• 0.0.86 - 9.09.2020

  • Some improvements to Get-WinADDFSHealth

• 0.0.85 - 9.09.2020

  • Some improvements to Get-WinADTrust
  • Some improvements to Get-WinADDFSHealth - added SkipGPO, SkipAutodection
  • Added Get-WinADForest adsi based
  • Added Get-WinADDomain adsi based
  • Added HideHTML switch for Get-WinADGroupMember
  • Added HideHTML switch for Get-WinADGroupMemberOf

• 0.0.84 - 2.09.2020 - Visually display Active Directory Nested Group Membership using PowerShell

  • ActiveDirectory/GroupPolicy are now optional to not block module from working without RSAT (for commands that work without it)
  • Made Show-WinADGroupMember, Show-WinADGroupMemberOf work offline by default

• 0.0.83 - 2.09.2020

  • Updated Show-WinADGroupMemberOf removed Hide parameters as there is nothing to hide

• 0.0.82 - 2.09.2020

  • Updated Show-WinADGroupMember renaming parameters from Remove to Hide which is original intention to hide them on diagram
  • Updated Show-WinADGroupMemberOf renaming parameters from Remove to Hide which is original intention to hide them on diagram

• 0.0.81 - 2.09.2020

  • Improvements

• 0.0.80 - 1.09.2020

  • Improvements

• 0.0.79 - 1.09.2020

  • Improvements

• 0.0.78 - 1.09.2020

  • Improvements

• 0.0.77 - 1.09.2020

  • Performance improvements to Get-WinADObject - new switch added IncludeGroupMembership
  • Small fixes to Get-WinADObjectMember
  • Small fixes to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.76 - 1.09.2020

  • Improvements in verbose for Get-WinADObjectMember to track down issues

• 0.0.75 - 1.09.2020

  • Improvements Show-WinADGroupMember
  • Improvements Get-WinADObjectMember
  • Improvements Show-WinADObjectMember

• 0.0.74 - 31.08.2020

  • Improvements to Show-WinADGroupMember (alias Show-ADGroupMember)
  • Added Get-WinADObjectMember
  • Added Show-WinADObjectMember

• 0.0.73 - 31.08.2020

  • Improvements to Show-WinADGroupMember (alias Show-ADGroupMember)

• 0.0.72 - 31.08.2020

  • Improvements to Show-WinADGroupMember (alias Show-ADGroupMember)

• 0.0.71 - 30.08.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADObject

• 0.0.70 - 29.08.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADObject
  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.69 - 28.08.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.68 - 28.08.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.67 - 26.08.2020

  • Added experimental Get-WinADObject
  • Replaced experimental Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.66 - 14.08.2020

  • Fixes to Get-WinADProxyAddresses - detects broken email address (for example one with ",")
  • Rewritten to Repair-WinADEmailAddress - was getting too complicated

• 0.0.65 - 23.07.2020

  • Fixed bug Get-WinADSharePermission

• 0.0.64 - 23.07.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADSharePermission

• 0.0.63 - 22.07.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember
  • Signed module

• 0.0.62 - 6.07.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.61 - 6.07.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.61 - 3.07.2020

  • Improvements to Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.60 - 2.07.2020

  • Fix for Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.59 - 2.07.2020

  • Added Get-WinADDuplicateObject
  • Added Remove-WinADDuplicateObject - doesn't solve some issues, but should help with most. Use with WhatIf
  • Added Get-WinADGroupMember

• 0.0.58 - 24.06.2020

  • Added Get-WinADWellKnownFolders

• 0.0.57 - 17.05.2020

  • Improved Remove-WinADSharePermission (foreach-object to foreach)
  • Improved Get-WinADGPOSysvolFolders error handling

• 0.0.56 - 15.05.2020

  • Improved Get-ADACLOwner error handling

• 0.0.55 - 12.05.2020

  • Improved/Renamed experimental Get-WinADShare to Get-WinADSharePermission - work in progress
  • Improved/Renamed experimantal Set-WinADShare to Get-WinADSharePermission - work in progress

• 0.0.54 - 10.05.2020

  • Small update to Remove-ADACL

• 0.0.53 - 9.05.2020

  • Fix for Get-WinADTrusts
  • Added experimantal Get-ADACLOwner - work in progress
  • Added experimental Get-WinADShare - work in progress
  • Added experimantal (not ready) Set-WinADShare- work in progress

• 0.0.51 - 28.04.2020

  • Disabled WhatIf for New-PSDrive (for use within New-ADForestDrives)
  • Added Get-ADACLOwner

• 0.0.50 - 23.04.2020

  • Fix for bug where some functions from other modules were not merged correctly (Copy-Dictionary) causing problems if PSSharedGoods was not installed

• 0.0.48 - 12.04.2020

  • Improvements

• 0.0.47 - 12.04.2020

  • Added Set-ADACLOwner - experimental support

• 0.0.46 - 11.04.2020

  • Added Get-WinADForestSites
  • Added Get-WinADForestOptionalFeatures
  • Added Get-WinADForestSchemaProperties
  • Renamed Get-WinADPriviligedObjects to Get-WinADPrivilegedObjects - tnx Subnet192 #5
  • Fix to Get-WinADPrivilegedObjects - tnx Subnet192 #5
  • Improvement Get-WinADDFSHealth for DFS edge cases (may be subject to language issue)
  • Improvement of all commands for detecting forest/domain/dcs
  • Added Remove-ADACL - experimantal support
  • Added Add-ADACL - experimantal support

• 0.0.45 - 13.03.2020

  • Improvement to commands to support different Forests

• 0.0.44 - 3.03.2020

  • Improvement to Get-ADACL

• 0.0.43 - 3.03.2020

  • Improvement to Get-ADACL

• 0.0.42 - 27.02.2020

  • Fixes for Get-ADACL
  • Fixes for Get-WinADProxyAddresses
  • Not really useful yet
    • Added Get-WinADUserPrincipalName
    • Added Rename-WinADUserPrincipalName

• 0.0.41 - 20.02.2020

  • Get-WinADGPOMissingPermissions updates to support SID instead (should work multi-language)

• 0.0.40 - 19.02.2020

  • Updates to Get-WinADGPOMissingPermissions

• 0.0.39 - 19.02.2020

  • Fix for Get-WinADGPOMissingPermissions for multiple domains

• 0.0.38 - 16.02.2020

  • Updates to PSSharedGoods code/PSEventViewer

• 0.0.37 - 12.02.2020

  • Added ExtendedForestInformation input to provide a way for Testimo to use
  • Enhancements to Get-ADACL

• 0.0.36 - 26.01.2020

  • Fixes for Get-ADACL (via PSSharedGoods integrated)

• 0.0.35 - 23.01.2020

  • Fixes for Get-ADACL

• 0.0.34 - 19.01.2020

  • Small fixes

• 0.0.33 - 19.01.2020

  • Added Get-WinADLdapBindingsSummary

• 0.0.32 - 19.01.2020

  • Small fixes

• 0.0.30 - 19.01.2020

  • Reworked most of the code to support forest/including/excluding domains and including/excluding DC's - needs testing
  • Added Get-ADACL
  • Added Get-WinADTrusts
  • Added Set-WinADDiagnostics

• 0.0.29 - 04.01.2020

  • Added Get-WinADTombstoneLifetime / Set-WinADTombstoneLifetime

• 0.0.28 - 26.12.2019

  • Added Get-WinADForestRoles (copied from PSWinDocumentation.AD)

• 0.0.27 - 16.12.2019

  • Fixes for Get-WINADFSHealth

• 0.0.26 - 18.11.2019

  • Added Get-WinADForestObjectsConflict to find conflicting objects

• 0.0.25 - 15.11.2019

  • Added two new commands for fixing and reading Proxy Addresses

• 0.0.23 - 11.11.2019

  • Removed PSSharedGoods as a dependency for modules published to releases and PowerShellGallery
    • It's still part of development build. Releases are now merged with PSPublishModule functionality
  • Added PSEventViewer as a dependency as it was missing
  • Fix for Get-WinADDFSHealth.ps1 SYSVol Count (tnx brianmccarty)

• 0.0.22 - 28.10.2019

  • Added some functions

• 0.0.21 - 10.10.2019

  • Fix for Get-WinADLastBackup

• 0.0.7 - 3.08.2019

  • Added Get-WinADLastBackup