ActiveDirectoryDsc

6.7.0-preview0004

The ActiveDirectoryDsc module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Active Directory.

These DSC resources allow you to configure new domains, child domains, and high availability domain controllers, establish cross-domain trusts and manage users, groups and OUs.

Minimum PowerShell version

5.0

This is a prerelease version of ActiveDirectoryDsc.
There is a newer prerelease version of this module available.
See the version list below for details.

Installation Options

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet More Info

Install-Module -Name ActiveDirectoryDsc -RequiredVersion 6.7.0-preview0004 -AllowPrerelease

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet More Info

Install-PSResource -Name ActiveDirectoryDsc -Version 6.7.0-preview0004 -Prerelease

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Owners

Copyright

Copyright the DSC Community contributors. All rights reserved.

Package Details

Author(s)

  • DSC Community

Tags

DesiredStateConfiguration DSC DSCResourceKit DSCResource

Functions

Find-DomainController

DSCResources

ADComputer ADDomain ADDomainController ADDomainControllerProperties ADDomainDefaultPasswordPolicy ADDomainFunctionalLevel ADDomainTrust ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy ADForestFunctionalLevel ADForestProperties ADGroup ADKDSKey ADManagedServiceAccount ADObjectEnabledState ADObjectPermissionEntry ADOptionalFeature ADOrganizationalUnit ADReadOnlyDomainControllerAccount ADReplicationSite ADReplicationSiteLink ADServicePrincipalName ADUser WaitForADDomain ADReplicationSubnet

Dependencies

This module has no dependencies.

Release Notes

## [6.7.0-preview0004] - 2025-05-22

### Added

- ADDomain
 - Support for Windows Server 2025 Forest and Domain functional modes.
   ([issue #721](https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc/issues/721)).
- ADDomainFunctionalLevel
 - Support for Windows Server 2025 Domain functional mode.
   ([issue #721](https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc/issues/721)).
- ADForestFunctionalLevel
 - Support for Windows Server 2025 Forest functional mode.
   ([issue #721](https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc/issues/721)).
- ADUser
 - Support for AdminDescription, PhoneticDisplayName, PreferredLanguage and
   SimpleDisplayName attributes.
- ADGroup
 - Support for AdminDescription attribute.
 - BREAKING CHANGE: GroupName field specifically refers to sAMAccountName, and
   new CommonName field should be used to update 'cn'.
   ([issue #732](https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc/issues/732)).

### Fixed

- ADDomain
 - Resolve 'Unable to find type [Microsoft.DirectoryServices.Deployment.Types.ForestMode]'
   when running on PowerShell Core / DSC 2.0 / Azure Machine Configuration.
   ([issue #723](https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc/issues/723)).

FileList

Version History

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6.7.1-previe... 63 5/29/2025
6.7.0 68,982 5/29/2025
6.7.0-previe... (current version) 19 5/22/2025
6.7.0-previe... 5 5/20/2025
6.7.0-previe... 14 5/9/2025
6.7.0-previe... 85 3/31/2025
6.6.2 135,418 3/17/2025
6.6.2-previe... 4 3/17/2025
6.6.1 2,358 3/15/2025
6.6.1-previe... 4 3/15/2025
6.6.1-previe... 4 3/15/2025
6.6.0 224,767 9/29/2024
6.6.0-previe... 54 9/2/2024
6.5.1-previe... 45 8/19/2024
6.5.1-previe... 10 8/18/2024
6.5.0 57,566 5/17/2024
6.5.0-previe... 8 5/17/2024
6.4.1-previe... 83 4/8/2024
6.4.0 205,966 2/14/2024
6.4.0-previe... 11 2/14/2024
6.3.1-previe... 17 2/12/2024
6.3.0 383,849 8/24/2023
6.3.0-previe... 11 8/24/2023
6.3.0-previe... 2,886 5/26/2022
6.3.0-previe... 178 5/17/2022
6.2.0 3,648,052 5/1/2022
6.2.0-previe... 160 5/1/2022
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6.2.0-previe... 165 4/30/2022
6.2.0-previe... 164 4/30/2022
6.2.0-previe... 2,490 1/24/2021
6.1.0-previe... 305,679 10/10/2020
6.1.0-previe... 637 7/13/2020
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6.0.2-previe... 188 5/2/2020
6.0.2-previe... 203 4/27/2020
6.0.2-previe... 195 4/26/2020
6.0.2-previe... 194 4/25/2020
6.0.1 1,658,423 4/16/2020
6.0.1-previe... 200 4/9/2020
6.0.1-previe... 227 3/12/2020
6.0.0 10,088 3/12/2020
6.0.0-previe... 190 3/11/2020
6.0.0-previe... 191 3/10/2020
6.0.0-previe... 190 3/9/2020
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6.0.0-previe... 196 2/28/2020
6.0.0-previe... 200 2/12/2020
5.1.0-previe... 195 2/10/2020
5.1.0-previe... 191 2/8/2020
5.1.0-previe... 193 2/7/2020
5.1.0-previe... 191 2/5/2020
5.1.0-previe... 196 1/20/2020
5.0.0 15,019 1/14/2020
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5.0.0-previe... 191 1/13/2020
5.0.0-previe... 190 1/12/2020
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5.0.0-previe... 192 1/10/2020
4.2.0.0 20,902 10/30/2019
4.1.0.0 10,936 9/19/2019
4.0.0.0 9,106 8/8/2019
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