PowerShell Module for AD/ ADLDS Schema modification

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A couple of years ago a colleague within my company (Avanade) published a link to a GitHub project that he had just completed: https://github.com/SchneiderAndy/ADSchema

I had just finished working on a project using MIM to synchronise identities and groups from two domains into one Microsoft ADLDS instance, using the ProxyUser class to allow ADLDS to become a common authenticator for a divestment. While proving out the solution, the target ADLDS instance was trashed and rebuilt countless times. The rebuilds were time consuming and boring. With this use case in mind, I took a fork of Andy’s solution and spent a few months (off and on) to modify the module to allow its use against ADLDS, as the methods used to interact with ADLDS were often very different.

My version of the module can be found here: https://github.com/jkbryan/ADSchema, the detailed usage examples are detailed in the readme file.

If you want to give it a try, please, please test against something non-production! I will not be held responsible for any mistakes made while using the module. Test, test and test again before using it in a production environment!

Time flies when you are having fun!

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Ha-ha! only one year (and a bit later) I finally finished the tidy up. All code samples are now in github gists. Crayon Syntax Highlighter is no more, it was a good plugin, but time for something better.

I found some odd formatting issues in some of the code samples. I reckon most of these are a legacy from when the blog was running on a Raspberry Pi and the cheap 4GB SD cards the the blog was running on were getting corrupted almost once a week. I used to spend hours every week recovering either the database or the entire disk image. Ahhh, such fond memories :), but a great way to learn.

It has been a super busy year, learning some new stuff focused on Azure infrastructure, Azure RBAC and AAD authentication to legacy applications. I’ll publish some content related to these activities soon.