What is the JumpCloud PowerShell Module

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).

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