Script to pull base64string from AD objects - powershell

Question

I am working on a powershell script together which will
query an existing OU
select the first and last name, samaccountname, and objectguid, of all users in the OU
Take the objectguid of each user and convert it to a base64string (immutableid)
output the results in a table format with users' first and last name, samaccountname, objectguid, and immutableid, sorted in alphabetical order by users' firstname.
The below script works just fine if I wanted to pull the base64string for one user at a time:
Import-module ActiveDirectory
$UserSamAccount = Read-Host "Provide SamAccountName of a user"
$User = Get-ADuser $UserSamAccount -Properties * | select ObjectGUID
$ImmutableID = [convert]::ToBase64String(([GUID]($User.ObjectGUID)).tobytearray())
Write-Host "ImmutableID for user $UserSamAccount is:" -ForegroundColor Cyan
$ImmutableID
Any help with this will be most appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

If I understand correctly your need the following should do the trick. It uses [pscustomobject] to construct your desired output and a ForEach-Object to process each object from the pipeline:
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=myOU,DC=myDomain,DC=xyz" -SearchScope OneLevel |
Sort-Object GivenName |
ForEach-Object {
[pscustomobject]#{
GivenName = $_.GivenName
Surname = $_.Surname
SamAccountName = $_.SamAccountName
ObjectGuid = $_.ObjectGuid
ImmutableId = [convert]::ToBase64String($_.ObjectGuid.ToByteArray())
}
} # | Export-Csv path\to\myExport.Csv -NoTypeInformation <= Can pipe this to export later :)
You could also use Select-Object with a calculated property (might be simpler but harder to read):
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=myOU,DC=myDomain,DC=xyz" -SearchScope OneLevel |
Sort-Object GivenName |
Select-Object GivenName, Surname, SamAccountName, ObjectGuid, #{ N='ImmutableId'; E={ [convert]::ToBase64String($_.ObjectGuid.ToByteArray()) }}