Enable ADModule to work on Linux/macOS about powershellmodulecoverage

[doctordns]

My understanding is that this module does not work on Linux or Mac for PowerShell 7.

The workaround is to remote into a DC and use implicit remoting.

[birojnayak]

@SteveL-MSFT hi Steve, is this doable ? Since S.DS.P (System.DirectoryServices.Protocol) supported in .NET 6 ? If yes, are you willing to take contribution for next version of PS release ? Let us know if there are other challenges...

[blowdart]

SDP is "sort of supported". It's ended up using LDAP for compatibility, so the functions that are supported are general lookups for group membership etc. It's not a full blown DS implementation that managing an AD would probably require.

[birojnayak]

@blowdart thanks Barry, we can understand.. with existing limitation if there is a list which modules could be ported to PS Core, we would be happy to look/contribute and see if there is a pathway to make it available in newer release..

[SteveL-MSFT]

@theJasonHelmick can you follow-up with the AD team?

[theJasonHelmick]

@SteveL-MSFT Yes - I've spoken to them before regarding this - I'll give them a call and see if this helps.

[iSazonov]

I guess AD module based on Windows wldap32.dll and it is unlikely that the owner will port this while there are already ported libraries.

The .Net Runtime has already been partially ported dotnet/runtime#35380
But there are still compatibility issues dotnet/runtime#36947

I suppose we could make a new module. See the proposal PowerShell/PowerShell#15578 (comment)