Active Directory Group Reporting

I've pushed v1.2.0 of the ADReportingTools module to the PowerShell Gallery. The release adds the missing help for Get-ADComputerReport. I've also added better documentation and information in warning messages when running commands in the PowerShell ISE or VS Code. To re-iterate, the module is designed to be run from a PowerShell console host. It is my belief that the PowerShell ISE and VS Code are fine for developing code, but you should run all code from a console session. I toyed with modifying the module manifest to require the ConsoleHost, but that also eliminated the option to run commands in a background job.

Here's what you can expect from the new versions.

HTML Group Reports

I've added a new command called New-ADGroupReport that is based on Get-ADGroupReport. The new command will create an HTML report of group membership, complete with collapsible regions like the other HTML reporting commands.

Disabled accounts will be highlighted in red and there is user detail when you hover over the user's distinguished name. You can see the complete sample HTML report here.

Argument Completers

The module uses a background runspace and a synchronized hashtable to enable argument completers on some module commands. These allow you to tab-complete values. I've added new completers. First, since I'm getting domain controllers in the synchronized hashtable, any of the module commands with a Server parameter can now be tab-completed. Then I realized, why stop there? I also added the same argument completer for any GET command in the ActiveDirectory module. Now you can run 'Get-ADUser administrator -server <tab>' and tab-complete a server name. I can think of a few other ways I might leverage this concept.

Try It

You can install ADReportingTools from the PowerShell Gallery. Or take a look at the repository's README. And don't forget you can always view the module documentation by running Open-ADReportingToolsHelp to launch a PDF.

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