Piping AD-User Information to CSV - powershell

Question

I've got some logic/formatting brain block here.
I have a CSV with GivenName and Surname Property to use
I need to pipe that info against the AD User Estate and Return the information on the users in the list with a few properties including their name, Office, SamAccountName and Email address. I've got as far as this:
$employees = import-csv 'c:\employees\employeelist.csv'
$UserInfo = ForEach ($user in $employees) { Get-ADUser -Filter * | `
Where-Object { $_.GivenName -like
$employee.GivenName -and $_.Surname -like $employee.Surname
}
The information is returned but not in a table form and i can't believe i cant seem to figure how to pipe it to a CSV, it's not working out, it is returned like this:
Reference : 201111
Surname : Smith
GivenName : Name
Effective from : 24-Sep-13
Business Area : Client Ops
Department : ATE
Organisation Unit : ATE Ops
Any Ideas why when i | export-csv i don't get the correct format?

Answer 1

As commented, you are using the wrong variable name in your foreach loop.
($employee should be $user) since that is the variable you define in the loop.
Something like this:
$employees = Import-Csv 'c:\employees\employeelist.csv'
$UserInfo = foreach ($user in $employees) {
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties GivenName, Surname, Office, SamAccountName, EmailAddress |
Where-Object { $user.GivenName -eq $_.GivenName -and $user.Surname -eq $_.Surname } |
Select-Object GivenName, Surname, Office, SamAccountName, EmailAddress
}
$UserInfo | Export-Csv -Path 'c:\employees\employees.csv' -NoTypeInformation
As you can see, I'm also naming the properties you want returned, because Get-ADUser by default returns a subset of properties and withour it, you won't get the Office and EmailAddress properties.
Also, I have changed the -like operator into -eq to fetch exact matches.
P.S. Instead of using the Where-Object construction, the code would be more optimized if you use the -Filter like:
$UserInfo = foreach ($user in $employees) {
Get-ADUser -Filter "GivenName -eq '$($user.GivenName)' -and Surname -eq '$($user.Surname)'" -Properties GivenName, Surname, Office, SamAccountName, EmailAddress |
Select-Object GivenName, Surname, Office, SamAccountName, EmailAddress
}