Powershell script to display all Users in a Group AD - powershell

I have created the below
Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase "DC=Domain,dc=.com" -properties name, members |
Select-Object *,#{Name='Member';Expression={$_.Members -replace '^CN=([^,]+).+$','$1'}} |
FT Name, Member -Autosize |
out-file c:\text.txt
Ignore Domain and .com I have them populated with my relevant information, but for sake of here removed them.
When I run this it returns what I'm after but when looking at the members within the group they all end with ... and don't show all the members

There are a few things to correct. Let's look at them in order. The actual AD query can be simplified: you only need to specify 'Members' as an additional property to retrieve as 'Name' is brought back by default:
Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase "DC=Domain,dc=.com" -properties members
Given that you only want to output two properties ('Name' and your custom one 'Member'), use your select to retrieve only the ones you want:
Select-Object Name ,#{Name='Member';Expression={$_.Members -replace '^CN=([^,]+).+$','$1'}}
Remove the Format-Table: we have already limited the selection in the previous command. Format cmdlets are designed to format the output to the console window and best practice dictates that they should only be used for that purpose and that they should always be the last element of a pipeline.
Piping all of that to Export-Csv will then produce what you want:
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path C:\text.csv

This one did the trick for me
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity Administrators | Select-Object name, objectClass,distinguishedName | Export-CSV -Path “adgroupmembers.csv”
I got this here.
https://www.lepide.com/how-to/export-members-of-a-particular-ad-group-using-poweshell.html#:~:text=The%20PowerShell%20Get%2DADGroupMember%20cmdlet,group%20you%20want%20to%20use.

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Output on CSV and argument in powershell are not same

I got user information from the user group in AD. every column has no problem except the user name.
On csv, User name is normal but there is a format when I get content from csv for using powershell like as below;
#{Name=abc}
for compare-object with two CSV, I need to use -expand.
Is there anyway to avoid this result?
I want to get a same content on CSV and powershell.
get-adgroup $path -server server.com | get-adgroupmember -recursive | select-object -unique | get-aduser -properties mail | name, mail | export-csv c:\result.csv
Use import-csv cmdlet to import the csv and not get-content. Also the provided code sample won't work - e.g. you missed select-object here:
| name, mail |
You do not need to query the group, as you already know the name ($path), you can directly query the groupmemberships, e.g.:
get-adgroupmember -identity $path -recursive
But in the end you could achieve the same in a much more efficient way, e.g.:
get-aduser -LDAPFilter "(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=[groupDistinguishedName])" -property mail | select-object -property mail,name | export-csv [path]
replace [groupDistinguishedName] with the distinnguishedName of the group. This will give you all users back which are member (transitive) of the defined group.
see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-adts/4e638665-f466-4597-93c4-12f2ebfabab5

How to filter out which users are allowed to log in to a computer?

I am needing to parse through user information to find which computers a specific user has access to, and then filter that out to generate txt docs for each computer listing the allowed users for that machine. However, my script isn't returning expected results and is creating incomplete lists.
Get-Content c:\temp\computers.txt | ForEach-Object {
$computername = $_
Get-ADUser -Filter "LogonWorkstations -like '*$computername'" -Properties LogonWorkstations |
Format-Table SamAccountName, Enabled |
Out-File -FilePath c:\temp\Accounts\"$computername-$fileDate".txt
}
I am fairly certain the issue lies in my filtering, because some of the files are returning info, however only ones where the username matches the computer name in some regard. Rather than listing users whose "LogonWorkstation" includes said computer, which is what I am looking to do. (If I pull a user's "LogonWorkstation" separately, that information is correct.)
I believe the issue is that the logonworkstations property stores the list of computers as a string rather than a collection. Since the -Filter parameter has limited operators, you will need to use -like in order to introduce wildcards. Then you can use whatever method to build your computer name string to include surrounding asterisks.
Get-Content c:\temp\computers.txt |
ForEach-Object {
Get-ADUser -Filter "LogonWorkstations -like '*$_*'" -Properties LogonWorkstations |
Format-Table SamAccountName, Enabled |
Out-File -FilePath c:\temp\Accounts\"$_-$fileDate".txt
}

Compare AD users from CSV to a specific OU

I have a CSV list of usernames from all over my domain, and I'm trying to compare the list against a specific OU and send the matches to another file. I'm brand new to powershell, so after a good amount of research and comparing with other scripts I came up with this:
$users = Import-csv C:\Users\me\Desktop\'RSA.csv'
$(ForEach ($user in $users)
{
Get-AdUser -identity $user -SearchBase "ou=Sub,ou=Root,dc=My,dc=Domain,dc=Name" -Filter *
}) |
Select-Object SamAccountName |
Export-CSV -Path C:\Users\me\Downloads\test\output.csv -NoTypeInformation
When I run this I get the error "Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The Identity property on the argument
is null or empty." If I run without the -identity $user it just pulls everything. Any suggestions on how to make this work?
When you are calling Get-ADUser rather than giving it a string with just the user name you are passing in an object with a property called username. You could use Select-Object -ExpandProperty Username or reference the just property.
Import-Csv 'C:\Users\me\Desktop\RSA.csv' |
Where-Object {(!([string]::IsNullorWhiteSpace($_.UserName)))} |
ForEach-Object {
Get-ADUser -Identity $_.UserName
} |
Select-Object SamAccountName |
Export-CSV -Path C:\Users\me\Downloads\test\output.csv -NoTypeInformation
Notes: Changed to a ForEach-Object loop for readability since it looked like you where trying to mostly use the pipeline. Also added a test to skip blank lines or usernames that are whitespace/empty string. Removed the SearchBase and Filter since you are looking up based on identity can't use those in the command. As there isn't a parameter set that allows you to use all of them. Get-Help Get-ADUser shows the available parameter sets.

Powershell script:how to Filter on AD Get commands to return certain information

I am trying to create a powershell script that checks AD group membership/domain/manage by etc amongst other information and puts into csv file, because I want to structure the csv file in a certain way how do i filter within the actual script to only return certain information e.g. withe the code below its returning a lot more columns but from these the only ones i want are "managed by" and "name":
Get-ADDomain -property managed By, Name|Export-csv -path C:\AD\Domain.csv -NoTypeInformation
Use -Properties to specify the properties you want, and then pipe to Select-Object to select the properties you want in the output. For example:
get-aduser -filter * -properties canonicalName,userPrincipalName |
select-object canonicalName,userPrincipalName |
export-csv myfile.csv -notypeinformation
Get-ADDomain doesn't have -Properties but you can still use Select-Object:
get-addomain | select-object ManagedBy,Name | export-csv myfile.csv -notypeinformation

Querying the ManagedBy attribute in PowerShell for AD

I have a small script in powershell written to query user groups in a specific OU in AD to get the name of those groups and to also try and get the ManagedBy attribute of those groups. I've been searching online and here for solutions to why the ManagedBy attribute is not populated results but I have had no luck. Every solution I have found has been written in C# (or another language) and I have tried using the Quest software for AD which doesn't seem to help.
$test = 'OU=example,DC=example,DC=test'
$test | ForEach {Get-ADGroup -Filter * -Properties ManagedBy -SearchBase $_ } | Select Name, Properties | Sort -Property Name | Out-File C:\test.csv
I am only getting results of the name of the groups and empty brackets for the ManagedBy attribute. My question is, is there anyway to query the managedby attribute in powershell without using another language or integrating different plugins? I've never written in C and I would prefer using native powershell if possible.
You've got an error in your Select. Properties should be ManagedBy.
$test = 'OU=example,DC=example,DC=test'
$test | ForEach {Get-ADGroup -Filter * -Properties ManagedBy -SearchBase $_ } |
Select Name, ManagedBy |
Sort -Property Name |
Out-File C:\test.csv