Whats the secret in being able to run a simple cmdlet such as get-aduser test.user (equivalent to get-qaduser). I have newly spun up a Windows 7 box to try the Microsoft set of AD cmdlets, and I am getting this error : "Unable to find a default server" This is machine is domain-joined. Do you have to connect to the AD DS some how to be able to run a query against your DS ? Thanks,

The short answer is yes, if your application needs the AD services you have to be connected.IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. I wanted to post many more downloadable files, the existing 30GB disk is insufficient.