Error on first attempt to use PowerShell

Question

_{Monday, July 12, 2010 9:44 PM}

We've just added a 2008R2 server to our environment.  I ran the BPA and followed it suggestion to run this command:

<i>Get-ADOrganizationalUnit –filter {name –like “*”} -Properties ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion | where {$_.ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion –eq $false} | Set-ADOrganizationalUnit -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $true</i>

(from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723677(WS.10).aspx).  The error says:

<i>The term 'Get-ADOrganizationalUnit' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or oper
am. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
</i>

Is there something I have to load? What am I missing here? Thanks.

All replies (4)

_{Monday, July 12, 2010 10:02 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

It looks like it's one of the AD cmdlets.

Run this first and try again:

import-module activedirectory

Alexei

_{Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:52 AM}

Hi,

I agree with Alexei, you may have to run " import-module activedirectory".

For more information about PowerShell for Active Directory, please refer to the following article:

Active Directory Administration with Windows PowerShell
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378937(WS.10).aspx

Thanks.

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_{Tuesday, July 13, 2010 9:55 PM}

Looks good, thanks. As I begin using this, are there other modules I should expect to need to import?

_{Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:11 PM | 1 vote}

Looks good, thanks. As I begin using this, are there other modules I should expect to need to import?

You can see what Modules you have available (BitsTransfer, PSDiagnostics): Get-Module -ListAvailable

To see available snap-ins (Quest): Get-PSSnapin -Registered