How To: Load the Active Roles Management Shell in a PowerShell session (4340743)

Active Roles Server 6.9 and previous versions.

Use this cmdlet to load the cmdlets from the Active Roles Management Shell into a PowerShell session:

Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement

These cmdlets communicate with the ActiveRoles Server server via DCOM, and are only compatible with ActiveRoles Server 6.9 and previous versions.

When working with Active Roles 7.0 and newer versions.

Starting with Active Roles 7.0 and later versions, all Active Roles clients including the Active Roles Management Shell must communicate with the Active Roles host via a dedicated connection port 15172. This requires that the new Active Roles Management Tools be installed on the Windows host and that a new cmdlet be used to load the Active Roles Management Shell.

Install the Active Roles Management Tools using the instructions from this resource and then load them into a Windows PowerShell session using this cmdlet:

Import-Module ActiveRolesManagementShell

There are no other changes required to existing scripts.