Automating Office and Active Directory with PowerShell
Office deployment and Active Directory maintenance often land on the same admin desk. This post collects the PowerShell workflows I use for silent Office installs, Office activation firewall rules, Get-ADUser reporting, and domain rejoin cleanup when a Windows device has stale identity state. Quick answer Use PowerShell to make Office and Active Directory work repeatable: deploy Office with the Office Deployment Tool and a checked configuration.xml, open only the firewall rules needed for activation, export AD user data with Get-ADUser, and fix stale device identity by checking domain join, Azure AD join, and dsregcmd output before rejoining the computer. ...