Windows Clients

The easiest way to manage the Active Directory with Python is as follows:

A Windows client is a domain member in the Active Directory. Using the Python library pyad, which in turn uses the Python library pywin32, the domain controller is accessed via ADSI interface.

For this purpose, a domain administrator must be logged on to the Windows client.

Install Python 

• Download the latest version for Windows
  https://www.python.org/downloads/
• Execute MSI file
  During Installation be aware of adding Python to environment variables:
  
  
  
  Then it is not necessary to navigate to the appropriate installation directory to start Python.
  It can be started from anywhere in the console.
  
  

Required libraries

pyad

pyad is a Python library designed to provide an interface to Active Directory through Active Directory Services Interface ADSI  on the Windows platform.

This library is needed for manipulating objects (users, ous, computers) .

Documentation is here: https://zakird.github.io/pyad/

pypiwin32

pypiwin32 is a library which is used by pyad. It is a Python wrapper to Windows specific functionality and APIs (Application Programming Interface). There is no need to program in C, .NET, powershell etc.

Installing commands in Windows Console are:

pip install pyad

pip install pypiwin32