PowerShell - Double loop possible? - powershell

Question

I want to compress a directory in a specific place.
The source path is : \\$Computers\Users\$Names
I want than for each computers a copy of each users directory in the sources path of each computers
I tried to use a foreach loop like :
$Computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter "Name -like 'PC*'" | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name
$Names = Get-aduser -filter * | Select-Object -ExpandProperty givenname
Foreach($Computer in $Computers)
{
Compress-Archive -Path \\$Computer\Users\* -DestinationPath C:\Saves\\$Computer\Test.zip -Force
}
This actually work, but I don't know how can I add a second loop inside the loop.
If anyone can just explain me the function or just some advises please for trying to do that.
Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

You're approaching the problem with the wrong logic, you do need an inner loop, however, instead of attempting to compress a user profile that you don't know for sure is there you can instead query the remote computer's Users folder to see which ones are there and compress only those ones:
$Computers = (Get-ADComputer -Filter "Name -like 'PC*'").Name
# Add the profiles you want to exclude here:
$toExclude = 'Administrator', 'Public'
$params = #{
Force = $true
CompressionLevel = 'Optimal'
}
foreach($Computer in $Computers)
{
$source = "\\$Computer\Users"
Get-ChildItem $source -Exclude $toExclude -Directory | ForEach-Object {
$params.LiteralPath = $_.FullName
# Name of the zipped file would be "ComputerExample - UserExample.zip"
$params.DestinationPath = "C:\Saves\$computer - {0}.zip" -f $_.Name
Compress-Archive #params
}
}