Microsoft
MicrosoftHi Anthony,
There's a few things in this post that'll probably cause a bit of confusion / errors:
The first step implies that you'll need to start PowerShell in an elevated prompt every time you want to do this, when in fact you really only need it to call Install-Module when not using the CurrentUser scope.
Aside from that, ActiveDirectory isn't actually available from any default repositories, and is part of the RSAT windows features, now you can activate those in any number of ways depending on where you're doing it from, the one most likely to be used is probably to import the ServerManager module and use its
Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-AD-Powershell
Now you say to use Get-Module to make sure its imported, and even though the AD module actually implicitly imports when you use a command from it, this is sensible enough. The problem however, is that we've not yet imported it, so this command will just return nothing as it defaults to look at imported modules (Speaking of, you don't ever mention Import-Module in the post).
