I am trying to make a very simple script work that reads a CSV with 100 SamAccountName/Identities into a variable and then returns AD Users with all Objects from Get-ADUser.
The CSV only contains usernames (1 each line) so essentially it could also be a simple text file.
I feel like I'm very close but I can't make it work for some reason.
$users= (Import-CSV 'C:\Temp\users.csv') # <-- Doesn't work
#$users= "backupservice","name01" <-- This Works
ForEach ($user in $users)
{
Get-ADUser $user -Properties *
}
Here's the error message when I am trying to read the CSV into the loop:
Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The Identity property on the argument is null or empty.
At line:8 char:16
+ Get-ADUser $user -Properties *
+ ~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
Okay, so I have an issue with parameter binding but I am not sure how to fix it.
I would appreciate any input/insight you could give me.
Thank you!
I actually just now took the original CSV (which had two columns [SamAccountName and UPN]) and fixed it just now with the following code:
$users = (Import-CSV "C:\Temp\Test001.csv" | Select SamAccountName -ExpandProperty SamAccountName)
ForEach ($user in $users)
{
Get-ADUser $user -Properties * #| Export-CSV 'C:\Temp\users_expanded.csv'-Append
}
Is there a better way to do this? The journey continues.
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I have a list of users in active directory to which I have to remove the description and office fields. how can i do through poweshell? I try this but not work.
My code path is ok
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$Users = Import-csv C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\test.csv
foreach($User in $Users){
Set-ADUser $User.SamAccountName -Description $User.NewDescription
}
my csv
SamAccountName;NewDescription;EmailAddress
xxxxxxxxxx;xxxxxxxxxxx;xxxxxxxxxxxxx#libero.it
Powershell answer
Set-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the
argument, and then try running the command again.
At line:4 char:12
+ Set-ADUser $User.SamAccountName -Description $User.NewDescription
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Set-ADUser], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADUs
er
Help will be appreciated
You need to specify your delimiter on your import-csv statement. The default is comma separated, so you can define it like so
$Users = Import-csv C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\test.csv -Delimiter ';'
Without this, then it's importing as one single column instead of three.
See Import-CSV for more.
It might work?
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\users1.csv
foreach ($user in $users) {
#Search in specified OU and Update existing attributes
Get-ADUser -Filter “SamAccountName -eq ‘$($user.samaccountname)'” -Properties * -SearchBase “cn=Users,DC=**********,DC=*****” |
Set-ADUser -Clear description, Office
}
Trying to search AD account properties pulling from a CSV. The Import-CSV line works by itself. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is asking for a filter. I took this from another script I found where they said it worked. Others were using a For-Each statement.
PS C:\Users\XXXXX> Import-CSV .\listofnames.csv | Get-ADUser $_.DisplayName -properties displayname
Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The argument is null or an element of the argument
collection contains a null value.
At line:1 char:43
+ Import-CSV .\listofnames.csv | Get-ADUser $_.DisplayName -properties ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
Its prompting you for the 'Identity' because that is how it identifies what user you are searching for.
Try this:
$users = get-content C:\Temp\test.csv
foreach ($user in $users){Get-ADUser -Identity $user -Properties displayname}
The CSV file just has the user IDs for the users who you would like to find info for.
Or if you can try the following:
Import-Csv C:\Temp\users.csv | ForEach-Object { Get-ADUser -identity $_.Name -Properties displayname }
I am trying to run a cmdlet on each element of a list. but i am getting the error ObjectNotFound: (*#{samAccountName=my_ad_username}*:ADUser) [Get-ADUser], ADIdentityNotFoundException for each element of my list.
Bellow is cmdlet
$users = Get-ADUser -Filter "*" -SearchBase "OU=Europe,DC=myDC,DC=com" | select samAccountName
$fr_all_grp_assigned_to_different_users = Foreach ($user in $users){
#Get-AdUser $user
}
Result
> Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The
> Identity property on the argument is null or empty. At line:6 char:20
> + Get-aduser $user
> + ~~~~~
> + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingValidationException
> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
> Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The
> Identity property on the argument is null or empty. At line:6 char:20
> + Get-aduser $user
Line 6 refers to #Get-AdUser $user
Can anyone help ?
Inside of your loop, you need to provide the SamAccountName value to the -Identity parameter of Get-ADUser.
Get-ADUser -Identity $user.SamAccountName
Explanation:
You can execute Get-ADUser by providing values manually to parameters or piping objects into the command and let advanced parameter assignment dynamically map values to parameters. Some parameters are positional in that you don't need to specify the parameter name when running the command with a value(s). These features/concepts exists across most PowerShell commands.
In the case of Get-ADUser Value, Value is automatically mapped to parameter -Identity. -Identity expects one of the following values:
A distinguished name
A GUID (objectGUID)
A security identifier (objectSid)
A SAM account name (sAMAccountName)
Get-ADUser has a convenient feature where if you pass it a Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser object type (returned from a directory server) through a pipe or to the -Identity parameter, it will automatically perform a search based on the provided values. If you provide it any other object type, it will not automatically select property values to pass to -Identity. Piping to Select SamAccountName returns a PSCustomObject rather than an ADUser object and then you lose your convenience.
Once you are dealing with objects that are not ADUser, you must provide -Identity with the actual value you want to query. In your case, that leaves you with two options.
Option 1: Select only SamAccountName values in your initial query
With this option, you can make use of the -ExpandProperty or -Expand parameter of Select-Object to return only the values of the target property.
$users = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Europe,DC=myDC,DC=com" |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty SamAccountName
$fr_all_grp_assigned_to_different_users = Foreach ($user in $users) {
Get-ADUser $user
}
Option 2: Use Member Access operator (.) to directly access the SamAccountName value
With this option you can use the syntax object.Property to retrieve the Property value.
# Using the singular object.Property ($user.SamAccountName)
$users = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Europe,DC=myDC,DC=com" |
Select-Object SamAccountName
$fr_all_grp_assigned_to_different_users = Foreach ($user in $users) {
Get-ADUser $user.SamAccountName
}
Starting with PowerShell v3, you can use the same syntax on a collection to return a collection of values (collection.Property).
# Using collection.Property ($users.SamAccountName)
# $user contains only a SamAccountName value here
$users = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Europe,DC=myDC,DC=com" |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty SamAccountName
$fr_all_grp_assigned_to_different_users = Foreach ($user in $users.SamAccountName) {
Get-ADUser $user
}
I am trying to retrieve the membership for a specific office of one specific security group in our working environment, instead of Get-ADGroupMember which is slow and always get time-out when there is a huge user list.
My code is as below:
Import-module ActiveDirectory
**$groupinfo** = Get-ADGroup -identity "vip"
Get-ADuser -LDAPFilter '(&(objectcategory=user)(memberof='**$groupinfo.DistinguishedName**'))' -Properties office,title | where {$_.office -like 'New York'} | select name,samaccountname,office,title |Export-csv -NoTypeInformation c:\tmp\NY.csv -Delimiter ";"
I get the following error
Get-ADUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '**CN=vip,OU=Groups,DC=contoso,DC=com**'.
At line:2 char:2
+ Get-ADuser -LDAPFilter '(&(objectcategory=user)(memberof='$group.Dis ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
Can anyone advise me how to use this variable $groupinfo in LDAPFilter?
Do I need a junction?
Get-ADuser -LDAPFilter '(&(objectcategory=user)(memberof=**CN=vip,OU=Groups,DC=contoso,DC=com**))' -Properties office,title | where {$_.office -like 'New York'} | select name,samaccountname,office,title |Export-csv -NoTypeInformation c:\tmp\NY.csv -Delimiter ";"
This one does work when no variable.
If you use double-quotes around the LDAPFilter, the content of the variable is used instead of the variable name literal.
Try:
Get-ADuser -LDAPFilter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(memberOf=$($groupinfo.DistinguishedName)))" -Properties office,title |
Where-Object {$_.office -like '*New York*'} |
Select-Object name,samaccountname,office,title |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\tmp\NY.csv -Delimiter ";"
Note: I have not tried to put all this in a single ling, because doing that just askes for mistakes that are hard to spot. Also, I changed (objectcategory=user) to (objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user) to make sure only user objects are returned. See Filter on objectCategory and objectClasO
I'm using a PowerShell script to add some information to all users in AD. For some reason, I keep getting an error message if the user has a apostrophe in their name (e.g Tim O'Reilly).
How can I format the script so it will include names with apostrophe ?
My script:
# Import AD Module
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
write-Host 'Starting to update AD Attributes.......' -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Yellow
# Import CSV into variable $users
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\users.csv
# Loop through CSV and update users if the exist in CVS file
foreach ($user in $users) {
#Search in specified OU and Update existing attributes
Get-ADUser -Filter "displayName -eq '$($user.Name)'" -Properties * -SearchBase "DC=My,DC=domain,DC=com" |
Set-ADUser -Company $($user.Email)
}
Write-Host 'done!' -ForegroundColor Green
And this is the error message I'm getting:
Get-ADUser : Error parsing query: 'displayName -eq 'Tim O'Reilly''
Error Message: 'syntax error' at position: '29'. At
C:\Scripts\Update-information\Update-Users-2.ps1:13 char:1
+ Get-ADUser -Filter "displayName -eq '$($user.Name)'" -Properties * -S ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [Get-ADUser], ADFilterParsingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryCmdlet:Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADFilterParsingException,Micr
osoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
I'd really appreciate any help I can get here.
Thank you,
You can use some custom delimiter in your csv file instead of modifying your script. Just divide your data with custom char like ":" (Tim : O'Reilly), and add delimiter switch for import-csv cmdlet, like
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\users.csv -Delimiter :