using Get-ADUsers to find info in powershell not working, term not recognized-CodePudding

I'm trying to retrieve few info from my AD users, with the following command on PowerShell:

get-aduser -identity username -Properties * | select DisplayName, City, State

But it gives me this error:

get-aduser : The term 'get-aduser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the 
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
  get-aduser -identity username -Properties * | select DisplayName, Cit ...
  ~~~~~~~~~~
      CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (get-aduser:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
      FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

I also tried adding this import:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

But I instead get this other error:

Import-Module : The specified module 'ActiveDirectory' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.
At line:1 char:1
  Import-Module ActiveDirectory
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (ActiveDirectory:String) [Import-Module], FileNotFoundException
      FullyQualifiedErrorId : Modules_ModuleNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ImportModuleCommand

What am I doing wrong?

CodePudding user response：

You need to install RSAT Tools in order to use the ActiveDirectory module.

If you have Windows 10 October 2018 Update or later installed, you can install RSAT Tools as a Windows Feature:

Note: The sample below doesn't use the direct name since there is a version suffix at the end of the name.

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "Rsat.ActiveDirectory.DS-LDS.Tools*" } | Add-WindowsCapability -Online

Otherwise, you can install RSAT Tools from the link I provided earlier. Directions are included there for how to install manually for still-supported versions of Windows.