Join Linux to Active Directory with PowerShell Core

There are many possibilities for using PowerShell on non-Windows platforms now and today my mind was pondering how to use it to join Linux servers to Active Directory. So, I created a small little function that automates some of this called Join-LinuxToAD. Keep in mind I tested this only on CentOS 7.

The script does the following:

  • Ensures you can lookup the domain with nslookup
  • Ensures Samba and other dependencies are installed via yum
  • Uses the realm command to join the local server to an Active Directory domain

While this is not totally automated, it does at least some of the work for you. I use $LASTEXITCODE has a way to do some error checking in the script.

Now lets run it:

Category: Active Directory 101, Linux 101 - RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, PowerShell 101