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PowerShell ActiveDirectory Module in Windows 8.1 without installing RSAT

I am writing a PS script which I want to run locally on a number of computers (not remotely). One of the commands in the script is Get-ADComputer, which is found in the ActiveDirectory module. This module is automatically installed when you install the Remote Server Administration Tools, but I don't want to have to do that on all the computers on which I want to run the script.

Is there any way to import the ActiveDirectory module on Windows 8.1 computers without installing RSAT on the computers?

Thanks.

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malcolm29

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For the sake of completion, what I really wanted to do was to determine whether the machine on which the script was running was part of a particular OU. So I used the ADSISearch function to get the adspath and then searched that path to see if it contained the OU called "Public Computers". If there's a better way to do this, I would appreciate advice as I'm a rookie in PowerShell.

$sString = ((([ADSISearcher]"(&(ObjectCategory=Computer)(name=$env:ComputerName))").FindAll()).properties).adspath
if (Select-String -Pattern "OU=Public Computers" -InputObject $sString) #Search for whether this computer is in the OU called "Public Computers"
{
Write-Output "Found it"
}
else
{
Write-Output "NOT Found it"
}

footech

I think that's fine. In fact, the query via adsi should be faster than using the AD cmdlet.

One note - although it works, using Select-String as you have isn't really correct. Better usage is to use the -match operator.

if ($sString -match "OU=Public Computers")

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malcolm29

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footech, thanks so much for the -match operator! I agree that it's a better solution! Thanks again!!!