Active Directory Powershell Utils

These four basic fuctions make life so much better when dealing with AD:

$ds = new-object system.directoryservices.directorysearcher

function Find-Group($samName){
 $ds.filter = ('(samaccountname={0})' -f $samName)
 $ds.FindAll()
}

function Find-User($samName){
 $ds.filter = ('(samaccountname={0})' -f $samName)
 $ds.FindAll()
}

function Find-Members($groupName){
 $group = Find-Group $groupName
 $group.Properties.member | Get-Entry
}

function Get-Entry($cn){
  begin{
    if($cn){
      new-object System.directoryservices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://$cn")
    }   
  }
  process{
    if($_){
      new-object System.directoryservices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://$_")
    }
  }
  end{
  }
}

(ok, three functions. Two are the same, I know)