I am using ActiveRoles Management Shell under Windows XP , Powershell ver 2 for retreiving Group data from AD and exporting it to csv file.Everything works well apart from getting member list it is so long that the program is writing in excel cells under member column System.String[] each time.How can I make it write whole list there , is it possible ? I could actually have only the name of the member don't need whole connection path.Is there a possibility to get from group field member only name ?
get-QADGroup -SearchRoot 'ou=User,ou=Groups,ou=PL,dc=test,dc=com'| Select-Object -property name,sAMAccountName,description,groupType,member|Export-Csv -path Y:\csv\groups.csv
Ok, as Matt suggested you want an expression in your Select statement. I would use something like this:
#{l="Members";e={$_.Members -join ", "}}
Which when inserted into your one-liner looks like:
get-QADGroup -SearchRoot 'ou=User,ou=Groups,ou=PL,dc=test,dc=com'| Select-Object -property name,sAMAccountName,description,groupType,#{l='Members';e={$_.member -join ", "}}|Export-Csv -path Y:\csv\groups.csv -NoTypeInfo
I also added -NoTypeInfo to the export to skip the annoying lead line telling you it's a PSCustomObject or some such and actually just get your data (and headers).
I don't have access to the quest cmdlets so I will provide a solution based on cmdlets from the activedirectory
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Employees,DC=Domain,DC=Local" -Properties memberof |
Select-Object name,#{Name="Groups";Expression={$_.MemberOf |
ForEach-Object{(Get-ADGroup -Identity $_).Name + ";"}}} |
Export-Csv C:\temp\TEST.CSV -Append
To make sense of this by line:
Should be self explanatory. Get all users in the OU defined. You would need to change this to suit your needs.
The select statement appears normal until you reach the calculated property Groups.
What continues from the previous line is cycling through every group that an individual user is a memberof and get the friendly name of the group (MemberOf returns DistinguishedName's). At the end of every group add a ";" as to not interfere with the CSV that will be made later.
Append to a csv file.
For brevity I didnt include all the extra properties that you included in your Select-Object statement. You would obviously need to add those back as the need fits.
Since you have the use the Quest cmdlets you could just change member in your select statement to the following:
#{Name="Groups";Expression={$_.member | ForEach-Object{"$_;"}}}
I cannot test if this will work. It is based on the assumption that member contains a simple name as supposed to a distinguishedname
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I am trying to utilize PowerShell to audit all of our security group members in AD. I have been trying to get Get-ADGroupMember to work but anytime I try it, it returns the message 'Cannot find an object with identity 'groupName' under: 'DC=xxxx,DC=xxxx,DC=xxxx,DC=xxxx'.
Ive tried the following with no luck:
$groupNames = 'groupName1' , 'groupName2' , 'groupName3'
foreach ($group in $groupNames) {
Get-AdGroupMember -Identity $group
}
Has anyone successfully compiled a list of group members in security groups from AD and exported them into a .CSV?
There are few things to consider when querying AD groups using the Get-AdGroup* commands.
The -Identity parameter only accepts values that match an object's Guid, ObjectSid, DistinguishedName, or SamAccountName. If your input is something other than one of those attribute values, you will either need to run another command to retrieve the proper data or change your list.
-Identity only accepts a single value, which means if you want to supply a list of values, you need to loop through them.
Get-AdGroupMember does not output as many attribute/value pairs as Get-AdUser. You cannot force it to output more attributes than it does. It does not have a -Properties parameter like Get-AdUser. Sometimes it requires using both commands to get all of the required data.
You can send Get-Ad* output to CSV using Export-Csv. If you do not use any property filtering like with Select-Object, the returned property names will be the columns of the CSV. The associated values of the properties will appear in rows with each row representing one returned object. You can choose to either send the entire results of the command once to the CSV or each time the command runs using Export-Csv -Append.
Use Select-Object to only output properties you care about. Select-Object Property outputs a custom object that includes only the property Property and the value(s) of Property for each object returned. If you only want to return the value rather than a custom object, you can use Select-Object -Expand Property.
Get-Content can be used to read a file. If the file contains only a list of values, perhaps SamAccountName values, you can use Get-Content file.txt to retrieve that list. The list will be an array that can be looped through.
Since Get-AdUser can be verbose, it is wise to use the -Properties parameter to explicitly list any extra properties beyond the default set you want to return. -Properties * will return all properties, but that is not best practice.
Given the above considerations, I would do the following:
$groupNames = 'groupName1' , 'groupName2' , 'groupName3'
# Alternatively, if you have a file (file.txt) with your group names listed as one group per line
$groupNames = Get-Content file.txt
# The Foreach-Object section is only needed if $groupNames does not contain a valid -Identity value
# The Filter below uses Name attribute as an example because it assumes $groupNames contains Name attribute values. If it contains another attribute, update the filter accordingly.
$SamAccountNames = $groupNames | Foreach-Object {
Get-AdGroup -Filter "Name -eq '$_'" | Select-Object -Expand SamAccountName
}
# Storing the loop output into a variable is efficient provided you have enough memory for the operation.
# Alternatively, you can just pipe the `Get-AdGroupMember` into `Export-Csv -Append` but that could be a lot of writes!
$output = foreach ($group in $SamAccountNames) {
Get-AdGroupMember -Identity $group # You can use Select-Object here for specific properties
}
$output | Export-Csv -Path output.csv -NoTypeInformation
We have users with minor but annoying differences in naming standards that are loosely followed making scripting a pain. The company has been around a while and depending on who was working in IT when the employee was hired the account could follow any naming convention if followed at all.
In one forest we have accounts that start with a-, the manager attribute of that account is the DN of the account owners other/main account without many other common attributes populated. I then need to look up the managers account and grab their SamAccountName. Then I need to add s- to the SamAccountName and do search for that to see if it exists.
Then I need to write the original SamAccountName, the second SamAccountName and the s-SamAccountName and something like a check box if its a valid account name all to a CSV.
without rewriting the script and passing everything to/from a var and then processing that I dont see a way to do it. This script looks up roughly 800 users and processes that three time, so it already takes a while to run without slowing it down with a bunch of var transfers.
$test = get-aduser -ldapFilter "(SamAccountName=a-*)" -Server XXX.int:3268 -Properties manager |
Select -ExpandProperty manager | Get-ADUser -Server XXX.int:3268 |
Select -ExpandProperty samaccountname
$test
You can do something like this to get you started.
$test = get-aduser -ldapFilter "(SamAccountName=a-*)" -Server XXX.int:3268 -Properties manager |
Select-Object SamAccountName,
#{n='Manager';e={Get-ADUser $_.Manager -Server XXX.int:3268 | Select -Expand SamAccountName}},
#{n='s-Manager';e={Get-ADUser "s-$($_.Manager)" -Server XXX.int:3268 | Select -Expand SamAccountName}}
$test
I am not clear if you need to add s- to the manager's or the original account's SamAccountName. The script above adds s- to the manager's SamAccountName.
In scripts where multiple AD lookups are required, sometimes it is best to do one larger lookup and then filter that result for what you need.
Explanation:
The main technique of the script makes use of delayed-script binding with the Select-Object command. Each user object found by the original Get-ADUser command is piped into Select-Object and is accessible by the pipeline variable $_. The hash table select can be updated fairly easily to meet your needs.
I am attempting to run a script against our AD that spits out the AD Users in a group, for all the groups in a list. Essentially attempting to audit the groups to find the users. I have a functioning script, except I have no way to determine when the output of one group ends, and where the output of the next begins.
I have tried looking for previous examples, but nothing fits exactly the method I am using, and with me just dipping my toes into powershell I have not been able to combine other examples with my own.
$groups = Get-Content "C:\Folder\File_with_lines_of_ADGroup_Names.txt"
foreach ($group in $groups) { Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "$group" | Where-Object { $_.ObjectClass -eq "user" } | Get-ADUser -Property Description,DisplayName | Select Name,DisplayName,Description,$group | Export-csv -append -force -path "C:\Folder\File_of_outputs.csv" -NoTypeInformation }
Right now the problem lies with getting the $group variable to be exported along with the Name, DisplayName, and Description of each user returned. This is the best way I can think of to tag each user's group and keep all the results in a single file. However, only the first line of results works which is the HEADERS of the CSV, and everything after it is either listed as "Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADPropertyValueCollection"or simply blank after the first group of results.
Hoping someone can show me how to easily add my variable $group to the output for each user found for filtering/pivoting purposes.
Thanks and let me know if you have questions.
I believe what you are after are calculated properties on your select statement.
Select Name,DisplayName,Description,$group
Should Probably be something like
Select Name,DisplayName,Description,#{n='Group'; e={$group};}
See also https://serverfault.com/questions/890559/powershell-calculated-properties-for-multiple-values
I have created the below
Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase "DC=Domain,dc=.com" -properties name, members |
Select-Object *,#{Name='Member';Expression={$_.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.
I am writing a script to create new AD users and doing a test to make sure an existing displayname is not found because New-ADUser will fail if one is found. Can someone help me understand why I might never get a true outcome from the following array list?
$ExistingDNs= Get-ADUser -SearchBase 'OU=whateverOU' -Filter * -Property displayname | select displayname | Out-string
My goal is to load up all the existing displaynames in an OU and then compare this with a method in which I read a CSV file to create a displayname, but I can't seem to get it to return as true.
If ($ExistingDNs.DisplayName -contains $DisplayName)
I was told this should work, but when I try looking at the array it is empty? Only $ExistingDSs shows me the list visually in ISE, where I can see clearly that a name exists that is the same in my CSV file, but the match is never found and never comes back as true even though both are string values I believe.
I'm sure it is because you are using Out-String which breaks the object array that select displayname would have created. Currently your $ExistingDNs is a newline delimited string when you really want a string array.
$ExistingDNs = Get-ADUser -SearchBase 'OU=whateverOU' -Filter * -Property displayname | select -ExpandProperty displayname
Also we use -ExpandProperty so you just end up with an array of strings. That way your conditional statement can be reduced to...
If ($ExistingDNs -contains $DisplayName)