Powershell GUIs - Is there an Active Directory dialog box for selecting an OU? Like the FileOpenDialog?

Question

Is there a class (possibly exposed through .NET) that allows you to kick off an active directory gui tree list? I have an app where I'm iterating the top level OU structure of a domain and presenting the distinguished name in a dropdown in my PowerShell gui but a more elegant solution (IMO) would be to click a button and allow the user to select the level of the OU to run the program against. Does anyone know what library/class/etc. I could use to accomplish this task in PowerShell? thanks in advance!

Answer 1

So it isn't perfect but I modified a treeview to dynamically enumerate the local domain structure displaying distinguishedNames. Now, this isn't perfect, but it works for what I need it for:

http://thepip3r.blogspot.com/2011/06/powershell-guis-active-directory.html

Answer 2

kudos to Micah for this awesome solution from https://itmicah.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/active-directory-ou-picker-revisited/

(I have been previously criticized on stackoverflow for posting a link only but for this no alternative as this code exceeds the 30,000 characters allowed)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ITMicaH/Powershell-functions/master/Active-Directory/OUs/ChooseADOrganizationalUnit.ps1

Answer 3

It exists as COM object usable in C++ as explain in Microsoft Documentation .

Multiple developers port it to .NET. I use the one from a french code sharing named Codes-Sources and adapt it to my needs.

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Edited

You can get there to use Microsoft Directory Object Picker in PowerShell.