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
}
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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.
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'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 :
I have to change all UPN in my Active Directory. Some UPN are completely empty an some are filled.
Now I want to fill them all with their sAMAccountName.
My script looks like this:
# Import AD Module
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
# Import CSV into variable $userscsv
#$userscsv = import-csv C:\temp\rename\usernames.csv
$users = Import-Csv -Path C:\temp\rename\usernames.csv
# Loop through CSV and update users if the exist in CVS file
foreach ($user in $users) {
#Search in specified OU and Update existing attributes
Get-ADUser -Filter "sAMAccountName -eq '$($user.samaccountname)'"
Set-ADUser -userPrincipalName $($users.samaccountname)
}
I get an errorcode:
Get-ADUser : Der Suchfilter wurde nicht erkannt
Bei C:\TEMP\RENAME\User-Rename.ps1:13 Zeichen:12
+ Get-ADUser <<<< -Filter "sAMAccountName -eq '$($user.samaccountname)'"
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-ADUser], ADException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Der Suchfilter wurde nicht erkannt,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser
Does anyone have an idea?
I would not recommend setting the UPN to the SamAccountName. That's not how it's supposed to be.
If you must do it anyway, you can't use subexpressions in a filter. Assign the value to a variable and use that in the filter expression. You also need to pipe the user object into Set-ADUser to give the cmdlet something to work with:
foreach ($user in $users) {
$acct = $user.SamAccountName
Get-ADUser -Filter "sAMAccountName -eq '$acct'" |
Set-ADUser -userPrincipalName $acct
}
Im trying to populate the manager fields on AD using
Import-Csv C:\Testimport.csv | ForEach-Object {Set-ADUser -Identity $_.samAccountName -Replace #{Manager=$_.manager}}
But I get the following error:
Set-ADUser : Cannot bind parameter 'Replace' to the target. Exception
setting " Replace": "Object reference not set to an instance of an
object." At line:1 char:95
+ Import-Csv C:\Testimport.csv | ForEach-Object {Set-ADUser -Identity $.samAcc ountName -Replace <<<< #{manager=$.manager}}
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Set-ADUser], ParameterBindingEx ception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterBindingFailed,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory
.Management.Commands.SetADUser
Depending on what the Manager is represented by in your csv you can just use the Set-Aduser parameter -Manager on its own.
Import-Csv C:\Testimport.csv | ForEach-Object {Set-ADUser -Identity $_.samAccountName -Manager $_.manager}
If not please show some sample date in your question. This would work in Manager was a account name at least. Also there is an error in the code you ran: manager=$.manager should be manager=$_.manager
If $_.manager is the Manager sAMAccountName attribute, you need the distinguidhedName attribute to use it later as a value into -Replace parameter:
Import-Csv C:\Testimport.csv |
ForEach-Object {
$managerDN = (Get-ADUser $_.manager).distinguishedName
Set-ADUser -Identity $_.samAccountName -Replace #{Manager=$managerDN}
}