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An exciting few weeks for IT Pro announcements!
We’ve had an exciting few weeks with several significant events across the technical community and the Microsoft ecosystem. These events all had multiple feature announcements and crossed referenced technologies to align usability and productivity, and there has been a lot of excitement throughout the technical communities.![A man working on a coding project, with a picture of Bit the Raccoon to the right of him.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2016/06/activedirectorythumb-300x169.jpg)
Setting up Active Directory via PowerShell
In today’s article, we are going to discuss setting up Active Directory via PowerShell. For the purposes of this article I will be using Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5, but there is no reason this should not work on previous versions of Server.![A man stood next to a server, with Bit the Raccoon standing to the right.](https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/industry/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2019/05/winrmpowershellthumb-300x169.jpg)