I need to bulk "download" every user we have on Active directory.
I need the email address, location etc.
I have been looking into the PowerShell command "Get-ADuser -Filter", however I need some help getting this to work.
See the documentation for Get-ADUser which has several examples as well.
If you want to retrieve every user, you can use an asterisk * with the Filter parameter. Otherwise, you can filter using a specific property.
You can specify which properties to return using the Properties parameter. By default, the cmdlet will only return a default set of properties, which are below
DistinguishedName
Enabled
GivenName
Name
ObjectClass
ObjectGUID
SamAccountName
SID
Surname
UserPrincipalName
Example: Get every user with default property set
Get-ADUser -Filter *
Example: Get every enabled user with default property set
Get-ADUser -Filter 'enabled -eq $true'
Example: Get every user with specific properties
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties emailAddress,office,city
Example: Get every user with every property
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties *
Example: Get every user with every property and export as a CSV
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties * | Export-CSV -Path "C:\Temp\ADUsers.csv" -NoTypeInformation
Additional Info
Active Directory: Get-ADUser Default and Extended Properties
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I need to export some information from active directory.
The current powershell script successfully get all the information it is asking for, but I want to also grab the user attribute "description" or "company."
$OUpath = 'OU=OU,DC=DC'
$ExportPath = 'C:\path\users_in_ou7.csv'
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $OUpath | Select-object GivenName, Surname,Name,UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv -NoType $ExportPath
When I add either of those to the Select-object portion is turns up blank in my CSV.
For example:
Select-object Description, Company, GivenName, Surname, Name, UserPrincipalName
Column headers are inserted into the CSV, but the values are blank. These attributes are populated in each of the user properties in AD. I am not sure if I am calling them correctly in my script. Any help would be appreiceiated. Thank you.
Use the -Properties parameter of the Get-ADUser cmdlet.
From the Get-ADUser documentation:
This cmdlet retrieves a default set of user object properties. To retrieve additional properties use the Properties parameter.
Specify properties for this parameter as a comma-separated list of names. To display all of the attributes that are set on the object, specify * (asterisk).
You add the -properties * to the query to extract all attributes.
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $OUpath -properties * | Select-object Description,GivenName, Surname,Name,UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv -NoType $ExportPath
I am trying to list all users that have the PasswordNeverExpires flag set.
If I use
Get-ADUser
I get a list of all users in my domain, along with a load of default properties.
If I use
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties Name | Format-Table -Property Name -AutoSize
I also get a list of all usernames in my domain, as a table.
When I use
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties Name,PasswordNeverExpires | Format-Table -Property Name,PasswordNeverExpire
I get a table that contains a full list of usernames, but ONLY the following accounts have either True or False in the PasswordNeverExpires column
Guest
krbtgt
Administrator
SBSMonAcct
Network Administrator
<MyDomainAdminAccount>
SPSearch
<AnAdministratorAccountForOneOfOurSoftwareVendors>
<AnAccountThatWasCopiedFromTheDomainAdministratorAccount>
<AnotherAccountCopiedFromTheDomainAdministratorAccount>
All the other items/usernames in the table have empty/blank/non-existent values.
I have also tried
Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(&(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))"
but that only returns
<MyDomainAdminAccount>
SPSearch
Why is the PasswordNeverExpires flag not being picked up for all users? Thanks.
PasswordNeverExpires is calculated from the userAccountControl attribute.
Probably the fastest way to search for users that have that flag set is as follows:
Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536)" -Properties PasswordNeverExpires
See the documentation for more information on searching using a bitwise filter. 65536 (0x10000) corresponds to the ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD bit position, so this LDAP search filter searches only for accounts that have that flag set.
Hmm, your third line pulls the property "PasswordNeverExpires" but Selects "PasswordNeverExpire". If this was just a typo in your question this disregard. If not then there is your answer. :-)
I want to use the Get-ADUser cmdlet to determine who's accounts are disabled.
The "Description" attribute in any user's account is not showing up.
Is it only the attributes that you get when you do Get-ADUser [username], as listed here:
DistinguishedName
Enabled
GivenName
Name
ObjectClass
ObjectGUID
SamAccountName
SID
Surname
UserPrincipalName
We list the employeeID number in the description of the user account and that's helpful when we have duplicate names and need to figure out who's who. The command I'm using is:
Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=ou,OU=ou,OU=ou,DC=dc,DC=dc,DC=dc" -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SamAccountName,Name,Description
and the results for one person would look like this:
SamAccountName Name Description
------------------------- -------- ---------------
john.doe John Doe
Just a blank spot, not even <> like if you listed something that doesn't exist.
That tells me the Powershell command acknowledges the attribute exists, just won't grab it from the AD Account's info.
Sounds like it is not one of the default properties that get-aduser displays. Hence in order to get this information you have to explicitly tell it to display the description property. Hence:
Get-ADUser -Properties description -SearchBase "OU=ou,OU=ou,OU=ou,DC=dc,DC=dc,DC=dc" -Filter {Enabled -eq $false} | FT SamAccountName,Name,Description
I need to retrieve a list of Distribution groups with their x400 and x500 addresses. I have determined the attributes are proxyaddresses and TextEncodedORAddress. We are running Exchange 2013. When I look at a high level searchbase like "OU=Exchange,OU=company,DC=company,DC=com" and use Get-ADUser it returns the user accounts, however I need Distribution Groups.
Using the following returns the users with the attributes I need, but I need distribution groups, not users.
Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=Exchange,OU=company,DC=company,DC=com" `
-Filter * -Properties * | Select * |
FT CN,distinguishedName,proxyaddresses,textEncodedORAddress
I tried Get-Mailbox, Get-DistributionGroup, but I get an error saying it's not a cmdlet. I also tried using the attribute groupType to filter, but it didn't work. I'm not sure if I'm able to use Get-ADObject as I'm not quite sure how I'd use that cmdlet. Any help would be appreciated.
Because there are multiple values in that proxyaddresses, I was receiving Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADPropertyValueCollection, therefore I had to use the following.
Get-ADGroup -SearchBase "OU=Exchange,OU=Company,DC=company,DC=com" `
-Filter * -Properties proxyAddresses | Select CN,distinguishedName,textEncodedORAddress,`
#{L=’ProxyAddress_1′; E={$_.proxyaddresses[0]}},
#{L=’ProxyAddress_2′; E={$_.ProxyAddresses[1]}},
#{L=’ProxyAddress_3′; E={$_.proxyaddresses[2]}},
#{L=’ProxyAddress_4′; E={$_.proxyaddresses[3]}},
#{L=’ProxyAddress_5′; E={$_.proxyaddresses[4]}}|
Export-CSV C:\temp\x500_Export.csv
The only thing I can't figure out for the output, is why I see the various proxyaddresses and the distinguishedname, however it won't show CN, or displayname. Those are blank.
get-adgroup -filter "GroupCategory -eq 'Distribution'"
Why this powershell code returns whole objects insted of just selected properties ?
I want to get only name and SID for each user not whole Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADAccount object with bounch of properties.
PS C:\> Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=mailOnly,DC=test,DC=demo,DC=local" -server test.demo.local -properties SID,Name
Best regards, Primoz.
It appears that the -Property merely retrieves additional properties and tacks them onto the returned object e.g.:
Properties
Specifies the properties of the output
object to retrieve from the server.
Use this parameter to retrieve
properties that are not included in
the default set.
You can pick off the properties you want using Select-Object like so:
Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=mailOnly,DC=test,DC=demo,DC=local" `
-server test.demo.local -properties SID,Name | Select SID,Name
The -properties option on Get-ADUser retrieves extended active directory properties beyond the base set included on the objects. If instead you want to see the value of those two properties, pass the result set through format-list.
Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=mailOnly,DC=test,DC=demo,DC=local" -server test.demo.local -properties SID,Name
| format-list -property SID,Name