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Manage Amazon Managed Microsoft AD users and groups with the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, or Amazon Tools for PowerShell - Amazon Directory Service
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Manage Amazon Managed Microsoft AD users and groups with the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, or Amazon Tools for PowerShell

You can use the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, or Amazon Tools for PowerShell to manage your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD users and groups with Amazon Directory Service Data. The Amazon CLI commands use the ds-data namespace. The PowerShell commands use the AWS.Tools.DirectoryServiceData module. For more information, see Getting started with Amazon CLI and Getting started with Amazon Tools for PowerShell.

See the following procedures for more information on creating, viewing, updating, and deleting Amazon Managed Microsoft AD users and groups.

User and group management procedures
Amazon CloudShell

You can run the Amazon CLI and PowerShell examples from Amazon CloudShell, which comes with the Amazon CLI, PowerShell, and AWS.Tools for PowerShell pre-installed, and credentials are automatically configured.

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

  2. Open Amazon CloudShell. Run pwsh to use the PowerShell commands.