Ben you are the dogs whatits. This is just an awesome post on how to 1) Make ad admin simpler and 2) How to create your own pseudo-cmdlets.
http://blogs.technet.com/benp/archive/2007/04/10/creating-an-ad-shell.aspx
Now tie that in with some of Dmitry’s PowerBlog and you can fully manage an AD using Windows Powershell!
http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/ad-cmdlets-and-domain-statistics/
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