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What is the JumpCloud PowerShell Module?
If you read the article on What is PowerShell? then you know that PowerShell is is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft that was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18th 2016.
A PowerShell module is a set of related PowerShell commands that are grouped together and can be installed on a machine running PowerShell.
The JumpCloud PowerShell Module is a set of PowerShell commands that allow JumpCloud administrators to interact with their JumpCloud directory.
The JumpCloud PowerShell module is at its core a wrapper for the JumpCloud API and communicates with the JumpCloud API using the Invoke-RestMethod PowerShell command over HTTPS.
Common administrative tasks that can be automated or scripted using the JumpCloud PowerShell module include
- Importing JumpCloud users from a .csv file
- Exporting JumpCloud user and system information to a .csv file
- Creating and removing JumpCloud users
- Resetting a JumpCloud user password
- Unlocking or locking a JumpCloud user account
- Disabling and enabling JumpCloud user accounts
- Adding or removing members from a JumpCloud Group
- Triggering JumpCloud Commands
- Reading the output of JumpCloud Commands
PowerShell Misconceptions
PowerShell only works on Windows
PowerShell comes preinstalled on Windows but can easily be installed on both Mac and Linux.
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You have to have programming experience to use PowerShell
This could not be farther from the truth. PowerShell uses a verb-noun naming convention for executing PowerShell commands. This verb-noun syntax makes PowerShell both easy to learn and understand.
Commands within in the JumpCloud module can perform actions like creating a new JumpCloud user (New-JCUser) or getting information on a JumpCloud managed system (Get-JCSystem).