Adding multiple users to multiple OU's using a single line powershell command - powershell

Question

I am very new to PowerShell and I have a .csv file that contains 100 different users with the fields Name,Surname,Section and depending on the section the user has to be created in that specific OU. Ex:Joe,Heart,Accounts - When I execute the command I the user has to be created in the Accounts Organizational Unit.
The biggest challenge is that I have to use only a 1 line command to create the 100 users in their respective OU. I tried multiple commands and watched numerous videos but none seem to work. I am working on Windows Server 2012.
Currently, I am trying to make use of this command
Import-Csv C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\HomeList.csv
| ForEach-Object { Set-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity $_.Section -Member $_.Name }
And I am getting the error
A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Member'

Answer 1

Since this is a school exercise I don't think it would be a good thing to give you a working piece of code to simply copy/paste.
I can however give you tips on where to look..
The CSV file has these fields as you say: Name, Surname, Section where
'Name' seems to be the users first name
'SurName' is the users last name
'Section' is the (display)name of the OU
Each user in the CSV must be moved to the specified OU and for that purpose the ActiveDirectory module has the cmdlet Move-ADObject, so you iterate through the data with a Foreach-Object {...}
There are several issues to deal with here.
The first one is that the Move-ADObject cmdlet takes an -Identity parameter that can either be a DistinghuishedName or a GUID. You can also pipe an ADUser object to it.
In your CSV you have the users first name (AD property GivenName) and the users last name (property SurName) and so you will need to get the user object from AD first in order to be able to use Move-ADObject.
For that, there are several answers to be found on the internet, both using the -Filter aswell as the -LDAPFilter parameters of Get-ADUser.
The second issue is that Move-ADObject needs a -TargetPath parameter in the form of a DistinghuishedName and since your CSV file only contains the (Display)Name of the target OU, you need to get that first too.
The cmdlet for that is Get-ADOrganizationalUnit where you can use the -Filter parameter, something like this: -Filter "Name -eq '$($_.Section)'"
Note: you can also use Get-ADObject and filter on "ObjectClass -eq 'organizationalunit'" as an alternative for Get-ADOrganizationalUnit, but that is a bit more difficult.
Once you have both AD objects, you're all set to use the Move-ADObject cmdlet to move the user to the target OU, but always add the -WhatIf switch to the command when trying out your code. Only if you are satisfied with the results shown in the console, you can take that switch off.
Please do not attempt to put all this in a single line. Write it out and add comments to the code. If you got it working you may want to look at speeding things up a little by organising the data from the CSV using Group-Object
Hope this helps