Quest activeroles

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Quest ActiveRoles is a collection of very useful PowerShell cmdlets for Active Directory, offered for free by Quest Software.
As per May 2013, this is a direct link to the cmdlets. You need Javascript enabled to download.

The Quest Activeroles cmdlets now (February 2012) require PowerShell version 2. They also work against 2003 R2 domain controllers without Active Directory Web Services.

To add the AD management snap-in manually, you can use the following command, so you don't have to start the specific shell/host environment they provide:

Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement

See Getting computer names from AD using Powershell for an example with the Get-QADComputer cmdlet or Getting usernames from Active Directory with PowerShell for Get-QADUser.