PowerShell offers us the ability to manage very detailed and technical aspects of our clients in a standard way. Well, until you get to Active Directory. As part of PowerShell V1, Microsoft omited this seemingly obvious need. Would it be part of PowerShell V2? Nope. Instead I think that Microsoft followed the first rule of Computer Science "Never reinvent the wheel." What I mean by that is that third party vendors already did that for Microsoft so there was no need for Microsoft to invest the resources. The first link below talks about a free Powershell Snapin from Quest that handles AD management in PowerShell. The second like is the link to the down load.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/tools/cmdlets.mspx
`http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
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