In Powershell you can use the Get-ADUser commandlet to get all users in Active Directory. You can then pipe this to Format-Table to list some of the values in a table.
However, some of the values returned are also objects, for example the users manager.
How do I display a property of this child-object alongside properties of the parent - e.g. manager's name or email address?
I tried the following, but no joy:
Get-ADUser -Properties name, mail, manager | Format-table name, mail manager.name
Is there are simple way to do this?
The manager property is just a string (not an object with sub-properties). Two options:
1) Extract the name from the manager's DN (faster):
... | select Name,mail,#{n='manager';e={$_.manager -replace '^CN=([^,]+).+$','$1'}}
2) Get the name with an additional Get-ADUser call (slower):
... | select Name,mail,#{n='manager';e={(Get-ADUser $_.manager).Name}}
And you can always pipe to Foreach-Object and create a custom object for each user.
Maybe with calculated properties? Try something like that:
Get-ADUser -Properties name,mail,manager | Format-Table #{n="Manager Name";e={(Get-Aduser -Filter { DistinguishedName -eq $_.manager }).Name}}
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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
I need to export some information from active directory.
The current powershell script successfully get all the information it is asking for, but I want to also grab the user attribute "description" or "company."
$OUpath = 'OU=OU,DC=DC'
$ExportPath = 'C:\path\users_in_ou7.csv'
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $OUpath | Select-object GivenName, Surname,Name,UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv -NoType $ExportPath
When I add either of those to the Select-object portion is turns up blank in my CSV.
For example:
Select-object Description, Company, GivenName, Surname, Name, UserPrincipalName
Column headers are inserted into the CSV, but the values are blank. These attributes are populated in each of the user properties in AD. I am not sure if I am calling them correctly in my script. Any help would be appreiceiated. Thank you.
Use the -Properties parameter of the Get-ADUser cmdlet.
From the Get-ADUser documentation:
This cmdlet retrieves a default set of user object properties. To retrieve additional properties use the Properties parameter.
Specify properties for this parameter as a comma-separated list of names. To display all of the attributes that are set on the object, specify * (asterisk).
You add the -properties * to the query to extract all attributes.
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase $OUpath -properties * | Select-object Description,GivenName, Surname,Name,UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv -NoType $ExportPath
I'm an IT intern tasked with performing an audit of users on our domain and I'm having some trouble finding the info I need without all of the extra stuff. Is there a way to pull all of this info in one command? If not, can you recommend commands to pull users, usernames, and login info separately in a manner that I can copy-paste in the format I need?
I previously used get-adgroup -filter * and wrote to a file. Are there some options I can add for this filter? I also used a script to get all users, and all groups and their user permissions on separate occasions.
You could try something like:
Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like '*Accounting*'" |
Get-ADGroupMember |
Select-Object name, SamAccountName
Or if you need more fields from the user object, then try something like:
Get-ADGroup -Filter "Name -like '*Accounting*'" |
Get-ADGroupMember |
Get-ADUser -Properties Enabled |
Select-Object Name, SamAccountName, UserPrincipalName, Enabled
You'll probably want to export to a spreadsheet, so use Export-Csv for that.
I have created the below
Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase "DC=Domain,dc=.com" -properties name, members |
Select-Object *,#{Name='Member';Expression={$_.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 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