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Using Powershell to Mail-Enable an AD User without CDOEXM

Over on microsoft.public.windows.powershell, it’s been asked how to mail-enable an AD user in an Exchange 2003 Environment. The MS supported way involves CDOEXM (part of Exchange System Manager) which seems to be rather difficult to use from powershell.

Querying date based Active Directory fields

Another “from usenet to blog” entry. Someone wanted to a list of all users in their Active Directory created after a specific day. Like most AD related tasks, this is fairly easy in Powershell, but you do have to be aware of one tricky piece. LDAP queries

Active Directory - Paged Queries

One question that has come up a couple of times in the newsgroup 'microsoft.public.windows.powershell' is how to get more than 1000 records from an Active Directory query, particularly when using get-adobject (from the Powershell Community Extensions