Windows – Enabling Active Directory Module for PowerShell via command line

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As a final step in my Win7 MDT task sequence, I would like to move each computer from the staging OU to the regular OU (so GPO's can be pushed). My deployment techs have proven less than reliable on manually moving them, so I thought to automate the process using PowerShell. In the task sequence, I can install RSAT via command line, and the next step is to enable that specific feature using dism:

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:RemoteServerAdministrationTools-<featurename>

Then I run the PS script, disable it via dism, and uninstall RSAT with the same method. However, I cannot seem to find the feature name for the PowerShell module, as seen in this screenshot:

Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell

I have searched all through Google and Technet, to no avail. I literally only need the PS module. I have tried to just copy the module folder, but when trying to import the module in my script, it tells me the assembly 'microsoft.activedirectory.management' was not loaded because no assembly was found, which means the assembly dll is buried somewhere in the RSAT installation.

If you have any other suggestions on how to import that module without installing RSAT, I would actually prefer that, but nothing I have found thus far works.

Thanks in advance.

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The feature name is RemoteServerAdministrationTools-Roles-AD-Powershell

For future reference, dism will list all available features with the /get-features switch:

dism /online /get-features

Or with PowerShell:

Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online

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Windows – How to add Active Directory module in PowerShell in Windows 8

STEP 1.) Download and install Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8.1 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39296

STEP 2.) For x64, install Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu

STEP 3.) Active Feature

Select AD DS and AD LDS Tools and then select Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell.

To turn off specific tolos

1.On the desktop, hover in the upper right corner of the screen, and then click Settings.
2.On the Desktop menu, click Control Panel.
3.Click Programs, and then in Programs and Features, click Turn Windows features on or off.
4.In the Windows Features dialog box, expand Remote Server Administration Tools, and then expand either Role Administration Tools or Feature Administration Tools.
5.Clear the check boxes for any tools that you want to turn off. Click OK, and then close Control Panel.

STEP 4.) Open a PowerShell prompt and type PS C:\> Get-Module –ListAvailable.

STEP 5.) To ensure the Active Directory Module is present, using PowerShell type PS C:> Import-Module ActiveDirectory.

NOTE: You will need to do this for every PowerShell session.

If you wish to have the Active Directory Module automatically loaded any time you run PowerShell, prepare a shortcut with the following content: %windir%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -command import-module ActiveDirectory

STEP 6.) PS C:> Get-ADGroupMember "MY CUSTOM GROUP IN AD" | select name

Appenders:

Installation and Uninstallation of MSU in silent mode http://msiworld.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/silent-install-and-uninstall-of-msu.html

Sources: https://support.software.dell.com/es-es/appassure/kb/117489
https://kiquenet.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/installing-powershell-active-directory-module-for-windows-8-1/

Shell – How to add Active Directory module in PowerShell in Windows 10

The RSAT tools for the release build of Windows 10 aren't out yet.

It's expected sometime this month, alongside Tech Preview 3 of Server 2016.

Once it's out, install and enable as you normally would.

For now, you could always spin up a Windows 8 VM (using the included Hyper-V feature?) and import a remote PowerShell session from that.

Something along the lines of:

$RsatSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName Win8VM # Maybe include -credential or -authentication
Import-PSSession -Session $RsatSession -Module ActiveDirectory,(Any other RSAT Modules you want)

Note: I haven't tested this myself. I'm holding off on upgrading my workstation until the tools are out.

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