You are trying to execute your standard [easyazon_link identifier=”B01NBI97UZ” locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] PowerShell [/easyazon_link] commands such as Get-ADuser and getting errors – this is caused for me every month upon installation of monthly patches to [easyazon_link identifier=”B015HVU740″ locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] Windows 10 [/easyazon_link] machine. It seems that the updates remove every month the RSAT tools and as well the [easyazon_link identifier=”B06VYFQNH4″ locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] ActiveDirectory [/easyazon_link] module from the computer.
Usually you will notice this by getting these errors:
The term 'Get-ADUser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct
and try again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-ADUser:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Once you see this error try import-module Active Directory
import-module ActiveDirectory
If it fails with similar error:
import-module: The Specified module 'ActiveDirectory' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory. At line: 1 char:1 +import-mpodule ActiveDirectory ....
You can check one more time with list of modules:
get-module -listavailable
If the module is not listed, definitely you will need to install/reinstall the RSAT tools for Windows 10 again on your machine and all will be back. This happened few times upon new monthly patches were applied to Windows 10 machine.