--- title: "Finding AD Users: Master Get-ADUser in PowerShell" description: "Locate Active Directory users effortlessly. Learn to master the Get-ADUser cmdlet in PowerShell." canonical: "https://adamtheautomator.com/docker-windows-server/" --- # Finding AD Users: Master Get-ADUser in PowerShell > Locate Active Directory users effortlessly. Learn to master the Get-ADUser cmdlet in PowerShell. 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In this article, you’ll learn how to get started from scratch – no prior experience is necessary! Not a reader? Watch this related video. **_Not seeing the video? Make sure your ad blocker is disabled._** Windows Server has come a long way since Windows NT. First, we could virtualize Windows Server, and now we can even play in the realm which what was once an exclusive Linux feature: containers! Nowadays, we can run Windows on a container in Docker just as easily as a Linux-based container, but how? Since Microsoft is a fairly recent player in the container market, the concept of Docker and containers is probably new to a lot of Microsoft shops. The best way to learn about something is doing, so let’s do it. For this article, we’re going to start from a Windows Server 2016 host since this is the earliest version of Windows in which you can run a true Docker host. ## Download and Install the Docker Module and Package On your Windows Server 2016, head out to the PowerShell Gallery and download the [DockerMsftProvider](https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/DockerMsftProvider/1.0.0.8) module. This is the [PowerShell module](https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-modules/ "PowerShell module") that contains all of the package providers that will allow you to download and install the docker utilities via the PowerShellGet `Install-Package` command. ```powershell PS> Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force PS> Install-Module -Name DockerMsftProvider -Force ``` Once you’ve got the provider installed, it’s now time to put it to good use by installing the Docker page from it. ```powershell PS> Install-Package -Name docker -ProviderName DockerMsftProvider -Force WARNING: A restart is required to enable the containers feature. Please restart your machine. Name Version Source Summary ---- ------- ------ ------- Docker 17.06.2-ee-6 DockerDefault Contains Docker EE for use with Windows Server. ``` We will head the warning the package installer tells us and will then restart our Windows Server host with `Restart-Computer -Force`. Once the server comes back online, check to see if the docker daemon is working correctly by checking the version. If you get back a client and a server section with version information for each, you’re good to go! ```bash PS> docker version Client: Version: 17.06.2-ee-6 API version: 1.30 Go version: go1.8.3 Git commit: e75fdb8 Built: Mon Nov 27 22:46:09 2017 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Server: Version: 17.06.2-ee-6 API version: 1.30 (minimum version 1.24) Go version: go1.8.3 Git commit: e75fdb8 Built: Mon Nov 27 22:55:16 2017 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Experimental: false ``` ## Downloading the Base Image Next comes the part where you need a container base image. The easiest way to get an image onto your server is through the [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/). To get an image from the Docker Hub, you can use the `pull` parameter on the docker utility. **_Related: [How to Create a Docker Windows Image with Docker Build](https://adamtheautomator.com/docker-build-tag/)_** For now, I’ll pull down a fresh copy of Windows Server Core. Once started, you will see the download progress for each image in the defined repository. ```bash PS> docker pull microsoft/windowsservercore Using default tag: latest latest: Pulling from microsoft/windowsservercore 3889bb8d808b: Downloading [========================> ] 2.019GB/4.07GB cfb27c9ba25f: Download complete ``` Once the image for Windows has been downloaded, the Docker engine will then extract each image from its compressed state. Unfortunately, for Windows Server images, this can take a bit of time. But once the image(s) have extracted, you’ve created your first Windows Server container with Docker! ## Running Commands in the Docker Windows Server Container The final piece just to confirm the container is intact and working is to send a run command to it using `docker run`. `docker run` is a command that sends a non-interactive command to the container. It’s essentially like opening up `cmd` and running commands that way. Any command will work so for how we’ll just see if we can return the hostname of the container using the `hostname` command. ```powershell PS> docker run microsoft/windowsservercore hostname69c7de26ea48 ``` If it returns anything but an error you’re done! You’ve now got a Windows Server 2016 host setup with the Docker service running capable of pulling and pushing Docker images to/from the Docker Hub and running any number of containers you please. 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