Recommendation: Use this AD automation suite to deploy, secure, and operate Active Directory reliably at enterprise scale.
- Reduce risk: codified hardening, repeatable deployments, and validated recovery.
- Move faster: opinionated scripts and templates for day-1 to day-N operations.
- Prove compliance: built-in auditing, RBAC alignment, and baseline enforcement.
- Modular PowerShell functions grouped by deployment, configuration, security, monitoring, troubleshooting.
- Example-driven workflows and test harnesses to validate environments safely.
- JSON configuration templates for consistent, repeatable changes.
This solution provides comprehensive PowerShell scripts for Windows Active Directory management, covering all aspects of AD deployment, configuration, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Adrian Johnson
Email: adrian207@gmail.com
Version: 1.0.0
Last updated: 2025-10-26
- Centralized Identity and Authentication
- Group Policy Management (GPO)
- Organizational Units (OUs) and Delegation
- Multi-Domain and Multi-Forest Architectures
- Trust Relationships
- Kerberos Delegation and Constrained Delegation
- Fine-Grained Password Policies
- Read-Only Domain Controllers (RODC)
- FSMO Role Management
- AD Integrated DNS
- Replication and Site Topology
- Certificate Mapping and PKINIT
- Service Accounts (gMSA and sMSA)
- Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
- Auditing and Security Monitoring
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Group Nesting and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Schema Extension and Application Integration
- AD Federation and Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Time Synchronization via PDC Emulator
- Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Effective Permissions
- LDAP Query and Directory Applications
- Tiered Administration Model
- Privileged Access Workstations (PAW) Integration
- Group Policy Security Baselines
- Hybrid Join and Entra Integration
- Azure AD Kerberos for Cloud Resources
- Trust Hardening and SID Filtering
- AD Forest Recovery
- Schema Version Management and Migration
- Custom Attribute-Based Authentication
- Delegated Administration for Helpdesk
- Offline Domain Join and Provisioning
- Integration with Keyfactor, Venafi, and SCIM
- Kerberos Armoring and FAST
- LDAP over SSL (LDAPS)
- Dynamic Group Membership via LDAP Filters
- Integration with Device Health Attestation and NPS
- AD as Root of Trust for PKI and Federation
- Windows Server 2016 or later
- Active Directory Domain Services
- Administrative privileges
- Network connectivity
- Sufficient storage space
- Sufficient memory and CPU resources
- Download the Active Directory Scripts solution
- Extract to desired location
- Import required modules
- Configure execution policy
- Run deployment scripts
# Validate AD prerequisites and environment health
# Deploy a new domain controller (example)
Test-ADDomain -Identity "contoso.com"
# Deploy a new domain controller (example)
.\Scripts\Deployment\Deploy-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -DomainName "contoso.com"
# Apply baseline hardening
# Apply baseline hardening
.\Scripts\Security\Secure-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -SecurityLevel "Standard"# Deploy Active Directory
.\Scripts\Deployment\Deploy-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -DomainName "contoso.com"
# Configure Active Directory
.\Scripts\Configuration\Configure-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -ConfigurationLevel "Standard"
# Secure Active Directory
.\Scripts\Security\Secure-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -SecurityLevel "Standard"
# Monitor Active Directory
.\Scripts\Monitoring\Monitor-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -MonitoringLevel "Standard"
# Troubleshoot Active Directory
.\Scripts\Troubleshooting\Troubleshoot-ActiveDirectory.ps1 -ServerName "DC-SERVER01" -TroubleshootingLevel "Standard"For support, please contact Adrian Johnson at adrian207@gmail.com