Welcome to ms_active_directory’s documentation!

ms_active_directory is a pure Python client library for developing tools for and integrations with Microsoft Active Directory domains. It is mostly platform independent, with optional features that do have platform specific behavior.

It includes utilities for discovering and searching domains, as well as joining computers to them, modifying entities within them, and looking up information about users, groups, computers, and other objects.

It does its best to abstract away the nuances and quirks of Active Directory, and allow users to easily perform common operations in a highly efficient manner that is highly secure by default, while also being flexible enough for power users to perform complex operations not supported by the library in pre-made functions.

This library tries to conform to all Active Directory standard defaults in terms of object locations, entity object classes, encryption types used, DNS names used for computers, etc.

Documentation vs. Examples

If you’re looking for examples of using the library, there’s a good number of examples in the github repo’s README file and the repo itself, which help to provide concrete demonstrations of how to use the functions documented here.

The documentation here is based on the docstrings in the repo and the type annotations in the repo, which means that it’s incredibly detailed and thorough. A point of pride for this library is the complete type annotation of functions and highly descriptive docstrings for every user-facing function.

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