Our organization has struggled working with the current interface to create ActiveViews. Simple tasks such as adding a computer to a group have been difficult to setup. The EA command-line option is difficult to determine the syntax, taking more time than using the GUI console.

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  • Luke, there was another request similar for automating the AVs. Would providing a set of PowerShell cmdlets for AV management be of interest to you?

  • Hi Jeff, that's correct - we would greatly benefit from a PowerShell interface to manage the delegation model (ActiveView, AssistantAdmin, Role, Power, etc.).

  • This is probably a duplicate of https://www1.v1ideas.com/MFI/directory-resource-administrator/Idea/Detail/15043

  • This is a duplication of another great idea . We are exploring using PS to build the delegation model and exploring where we can fit this into our road map.

  • For those who would like to use EA.exe but find that it's too hard to use, I wrote a PowerShell module that acts as a "wrapper" for EA.exe that (at least to me) is a lot easier to understand and use. You can download the installer from the Releases section of the GitHub project page: https://github.com/Bill-Stewart/PowerShell-DRADelegation -- also, feel free to leave questions or problems on the Issues tab. I expect that this project will be obsolete once MicroFocus/NetIQ adds native support, but this is getting me by for now.