Sometimes managing groups in Active Directory becomes tedious and even overwhelming. Sure, you can add a user to multiple groups using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) and in cases where group management doesn’t happen often, this might be the way to go, but Quest Software has a set of PowerShell Commandlets that can make this task very easy to automate.
Here are some Quest commands working with Active Directory :
Get-QADComputer Retrieve computer objects that match specified conditions.
Connect-QADService Connect to AD domain controller (or AD LDS)
Disconnect-QADService Disconnect from an AD domain controller
Get-QADGroup Retrieve groups that match specific conditions
Set-QADGroup Modify attributes of group(s)
Snapins in Powershell are like toolboxes, including many commands, specific to a tool, a software, etc..
The two most important (most famous) :
Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin
VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Here is the command to add a snapin :
Add-PSSnapin
A really easy way to add all installed snapins :