This section provides instructions on how to get help information for the cmdlets added by Management Shell to the Windows PowerShell environment.
Table 2: To view help
A list of all the Management Shell cmdlets available to the shell. |
Get-QCCommand |
Information about the parameters and other components of a Management Shell cmdlet. |
Run one of the following:
NOTE: You can use wildcard character expansion. For example, to view information about the cmdlets with the names ending in Workflow, run this command: Get-Command *Workflow. |
Basic help information for a Management Shell cmdlet. |
Get-Help <CmdletName> |
Detailed help information for a Management Shell cmdlet, including the descriptions of available parameters and usage examples. |
Get-Help <CmdletName> -full |
Basic information about how to use the help system in Windows PowerShell, including Help for the Management Shell. |
Get-Help |
Connections to external data systems
This section describes how to create or modify a connection to Active Directory so that could work with data in that data system.
To create a connection to Active Directory domain, you need to use in conjunction with a special connector called Active Directory Connector. This connector is included in the package.
The Active Directory Connector supports the following features:
Table 3: Active Directory Connector – Supported features
Bidirectional synchronization
Specifies whether you can both read and write data in the connected data system. |
Yes |
Delta processing mode
Specifies whether the connection can process only the data that has changed in the connected data system since the last synchronization operation. This reduces the overall synchronization duration. |
Yes |
Password synchronization
Specifies whether you can synchronize user passwords from an Active Directory (AD) domain to the connected data system. |
Yes |
The Active Directory Connector supports linked attributes existing in the Active Directory schema. Linked attributes allow you to establish associations between two objects.
Linked attributes exist in pairs, as follows:
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Forward link attribute: This is a linked attribute that exists on a source object (for example, the member attribute on the Group object). Forward link attributes can be single-valued or multivalued.
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Back link attribute: This is a linked attribute that can be specified on a target object (for example, the memberOf attribute on the User object). Back link attributes are multivalued and they must have a corresponding forward link attribute. Back link attributes are not stored in Active Directory. Rather, they are calculated based on the corresponding forward link attribute each time a query is issued.