Current powershell script being used is in this format:
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties EmailAddress, DisplayName -SearchBase "OU=USERS, OU=Site, OU=$_, DC=domain" -Server ServerName | Select DisplayNAme, EmailAddress
My problem is that the OU users, and site are buried in different folders one level up, and I can't figure out how to make the powershell script look thru all the folders above (OU=$_). Using OU=* doesn't work either (bad syntax error).
The -SearchBase parameter doesn't allow wildcards, if I understand correctly, you're looking for all parents OUs having OU=USERS, OU=Site as child OU, in which case, you can first filter for all OUs with Name Users then filter again for those OUs where their DistinguishedName contains OU=USERS, OU=Site and lastly feed these OUs to Get-ADUser -SearchBase:
(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -LDAPFilter "(name=users)").DistinguishedName | ForEach-Object {
if($_ -notlike "OU=USERS, OU=Site*") { return }
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties EmailAddress, DisplayName -SearchBase $_ -Server ServerName
} | Select DisplayName, EmailAddress
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Just getting started with Powershell and I've run into a roadblock. I'm trying to iterate through AD and get a list of all OU's. From there I'm trying to get user account info for each user in each OU. To test I've been able to get the DN for all OU's and output to console but when I try and pass those values to the get-aduser cmdlt it fails.
Here's my code:
import-module activedirectory
$SearchBase = get-adorganizationalunit -filter * -searchbase "ou=users,ou=myUsers,dc=company,dc=local" -Properties CanonicalName | select-object -Property distinguishedName
foreach ($ou in $SearchBase) {
get-aduser -filter * -searchbase $ou -Properties givenName,sn,mail
}
I'm getting the following error message: "The supplied distinguishedName must belong to one of the following partitions..."
I think the issue is that when passing $ou to the get-aduser cmdlt the distinguished name must be enclosed in quotes after -searchbase correct? If so not sure how to go about that. Any help is appreciated.
The issue you are having is you need to expand the property you are selecting. You will notice if you run:
get-adorganizationalunit -filter * -searchbase "ou=users,ou=myUsers,dc=company,dc=local" -Properties CanonicalName | select-object -Property distinguishedName
It will show the parent property:
There are two ways to fix this:
Expand the property in your select statement:
$SearchBase = get-adorganizationalunit -filter * -searchbase "ou=users,ou=myUsers,dc=company,dc=local" -Properties CanonicalName | select-object -ExpandProperty distinguishedName
OR Call the Property in your foreach:
foreach ($ou in $SearchBase) {
get-aduser -filter * -searchbase $ou.distinguishedName -Properties givenName,sn,mail
}
I have below PowerShell commands, using which I can get the properties for all the users in the AD.
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$attributes = 'SamAccountName', 'Name', 'Mail', 'PasswordLastSet', 'Enabled',
'PasswordNeverExpires', 'PasswordExpired'
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties $attributes | select $attributes
If I want properties for one specific user, I can use below example in a command prompt:
net user /domain testuser
But, how can I get the AD properties for given list of users?
So, far I have tried the below but couldnt achieve yet as it returns only for one user (not sure how to loop):
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
cd AD:
$Users = gc "C:\AD\accounts.txt"
Get-ADUser -Filter '*' -Properties DisplayName, Office |
? { $Users -contains $_.SamAccountName } |
select DisplayName, Office |
Export-Csv -Path "C:\AD\output\UserProp_14072016.csv" -NoTypeInformation
I'm looking for password last set, active or inactive, owner of that account.
Could you please help?
A technique I use for getting an arbitrary list of AD users is to construct an ORed LDAP filter from the text list:
$Users = gc "C:\AD\accounts.txt"
$User_filter = $Users -replace '^','(SamAccountName=' -replace '$',')'
$Filter = "(|$User_filter)"
Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter $Filter -Properties DisplayName,Office
You can try the following:
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$Users = "Get-Content C:\AD\Accounts.txt"
Get-ADUser -Filter '*' -Properties DisplayName,Office,PasswordLastSet,LastLogonDate |
? {$Users -contains $_.SamAccountName} |
Select DisplayName,Office,PasswordLastSet,LastLogonDate |
Export-CSV -Path "C:\AD\output\UserProp_14072016.csv" -NoTypeInformation
I'm not aware of a specific "Active" property, but you can add the "LastLogonDate" to the Properties to determine when the account was last logged onto.
Additionally, I'm not sure what you're looking for when you are asking for the "Owner" of the account.
Incidentally, for a list of all of the properties available, you can do the following:
Get-ADUser <username> -Properties *
You may be able to find what you're looking for in the list.
Hope that helps.
Get last logon on descending order
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADUser -filter * -properties Displayname, LastLogonDate, SamAccountName, office, PasswordLastSet | select-object Displayname, LastLogonDate,office, SamAccountName, PasswordExpired, PasswordLastSet | Sort LastLogonTime -Descending | Export-csv c:\users.csv -NoTypeInformation
I am trying to get a list of AD user who does not have picture. I am on QBC.CAN domain and trying to get information from KOBAL domain. The KOBAL domain looks like this KOBAL.COM. There is OU called SALES AND sub OU called NORTHWEST.
My job is the get a list of users with name, title, email, where Picture is not present. thumbnailPhoto is the ldap-display name. I tried few queries but it doesn't give me what I need and keep getting error.
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Server "ADCP12WSDC54X01.KOBAL.COM" -properties thumbnailPhoto | ? {!$_.thumbnailPhoto} | select Name
This code works but I don't need the entire list. I only need OU=SALES,OU=NORTHWEST. If I change the script to following I get an error
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=NORTHWEST, OU=SALES ,DC=KOBAL,DC=COM" -properties thumbnailPhoto | ? {!$_.thumbnailPhoto} | select Name
Get-ADUser : The supplied distinguishedName must belong to one of the following
partition(s): 'DC=QBC,DC=CAN , CN=Configuration,DC=QBC,DC=CAN , cN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=QBC,DC=CAN , DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=QBC,DC=CAN, DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=QBC,DC=CAN'.
Here's what I would use:
$SearchBase = 'OU=NORTHWEST,OU=SALES,DC=KOBAL,DC=COM';
$LdapServer = 'YourLDAPServerName';
$UsersWithoutPhotos = Get-ADUser -Filter 'thumbnailPhoto -notlike "*"' -SearchBase $SearchBase -SearchScope 'Subtree' -Server $LdapServer | Select-Object 'Name'
The filter here removes the need for piping to a Where-Object. It will return any user in the target OU or below that doesn't have a thumbnailPhoto attribute. You don't need -Properties thumbnailPhoto now since you're not using it for anything anymore, so you won't be returning all that data.
Edit to add:
By default, the only properties returned by Get-ADUser are DistinguishedName, Enabled, GivenName, Name, ObjectClass, ObjectGUID, SamAccountName, SID, Surname, UserPrincipalName. If you want access to anything else, you'll need to include the -Properties parameter again with Get-ADUser to tell that command to fetch that data, too. All the Select-Object command does is eliminate fields that you don't want to see.
This should work for you:
$UsersWithoutPhotos = Get-ADUser -Filter 'thumbnailPhoto -notlike "*"' -SearchBase $SearchBase -SearchScope 'Subtree' -Server $LdapServer -Properties 'title', 'displayName';
You can then restrict it to just the fields you want:
$UsersWithoutPhotos = $UsersWithoutPhotos | Select-Object 'Name','title', 'displayName';
Or sort it by a field:
$UsersWithoutPhotos = $UsersWithoutPhotos | Sort-Object 'displayName';
And display it:
$UsersWithoutPhotos | Format-Table -AutoSize;
Or:
$UsersWithoutPhotos | Out-GridView;
Of course, you can do all that on one line, too, and just keep piping.
I am trying to get the list of a specific user’s groups and the groups’ descriptions using PowerShell.
import-module activedirectory
$username = Read-Host 'Please enter Username!'
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $username | select name, description
The description field returns blank.
From Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership manual:
The Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlet returns a default set of ADGroup property values. To retrieve additional ADGroup properties pass the ADGroups objects produced by this cmdlet through the pipline to Get-ADGroup. Specify the additional properties required from the group objects by passing the -Properties parameter to Get-ADGroup.
So, let’s do it!
import-module activedirectory
$username = Read-Host 'Please enter Username!'
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $username | Get-ADGroup -Properties * | select name, description
Also, in this case it should be enough to specify name,description instead of asterisk (*). If this is a performance issue, replace it. I am leaving it at asterisk because you might later change your mind about which properties you need.
Here is a simple but effective script to get AD Group info.
Get-ADGroup -filter * -Properties * | Select Name,GroupCategory,Description | Export-Csv D:\Test\SecurityGroups.csv
Just add or remove the attributes you would like to see in the Select area. To see a list of usable attributes you can do something like this:
Get-ADGroup -filter * -Properties * | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'DHCP Users' }
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership should work but fails if any group has a NAME containing '/' (which is a legal character in names as far as I understood the MS AD documentation).
This forces a heavy workaround:
$Groups = (Get-ADUser -identity $TemplateUserName -server $TemplateUserDomain -Properties MemberOf|select memberof).MemberOf|Get-ADGroup -Server :3268
foreach ($Group in $Groups)
{
Write-Output $Group.Name
}
Notice I use a domain search for the user's properties and then a search in global catalog
(-server :3268) for each group. Else you eventually won't get all of the user's groups or you'll get an error if any group belongs to a different domain than the user.
For a list of groups a user is member of:
(get-aduser NameOfTheUser -properties *).memberof
For Users
Get-ADUser -Filter {name -eq $username} -Properties * | select name,description
For Groups
Get-ADGroup -Filter {displayname -eq $groupname} -Properties * | select name,description
I would like to compare two organizational units users.
I can get my user list with this command:
OU_NUMBER_1:
Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=OU_NUMBER_1,OU=OU-SNE_SharePoint,DC=vf,DC=local" | Select sAMAccountName
OU_NUMBER_2:
Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=OU_NUMBER_2,OU=OU-SNE_SharePoint,DC=vf,DC=local" | Select sAMAccountName
I would like to get homonymous from these lists. Do I have to put my users in some lists and compare them ? Or anyone get a better idea ?
To summary, I would like to get a list with homonymous of my OU's.
/Update
Try
$UserGroup1 = Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=OU_NUMBER_1,OU=OU-SNE_SharePoint,DC=vf,DC=local" | select sAMAccountName
$UserGroup2 = Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=OU_NUMBER_2,OU=OU-SNE_SharePoint,DC=vf,DC=local" | Select sAMAccountName
$UserInBothOU = Compare-Object $UserGroup1 $UserGroup2 -IncludeEqual
Be aware that the Array $UserInBothOU contains PowerShell Objects.
When you want the sAMAccountName, then you must do something like that:
foreach($User in $UserInBothOU)
{
Write-host $User.sAMAccountName
}
Because sAMAccountName is only an attribute.
$OLDGroup = Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=InactiveObjects,DC=gov,DC=au" -server "gov.au" | select sAMAccountName
$NEWGroup = Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=StandardUsers,OU=Users,DC=nsw,DC=gov,DC=au" -server "nsw.gov.au" | Select sAMAccountName
compare-object $OLDGroup $NEWGroup -Property 'SamAccountName' -IncludeEqual