I'm creating a script to manage contacts and users on Exchange 2010 via Powershell. Especially we try to get all distributiongroups of a contact/user.
Is there a way to get the distribution groups of a contact/user? Perhabs without searching in all distributiongroups?
It can be done by using Get-ADObject using the contact's guid:
$contact = Get-MailContact domainname\contactname
(Get-ADObject -Identity $contact.Guid -Properties 'MemberOf').MemberOf
I had errors following the command above, the following tweek worked for me.
(Get-ADObject -Identity $contact.Guid -Properties 'MemberOf' |
Select-Object MemberOf).MemberOf
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I'm trying to get all groups that start with the following string from a user "DIR-*". With the following command I get all the groups of the user.
Get-ADUser -Identity $username -Properties memberof | Select-Object -ExpandProperty memberof
I then tried to filter with this, but that doesn't work because the list remains empty.
Get-ADUser -Identity $username -Properties memberof | Select-Object -ExpandProperty memberof | Where-Object {$_.CN -like "DIR-*"}
Unfortunately, I am still a complete beginner when it comes to Powershell, but I need the command promptly.
I thank you for any help.
I am new to powershell so please excuse me if the answer is quite simple. I am trying to get user list sorted by selected AD groups and export that to table or csv at least. Due to the fact that:
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "TestGroupName"
... gives me only user IDs for my AD, I used below:
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity "TestGroupName" | Get-ADObject -Properties displayName
This works perfectly but I do not want to type manually each group there so I decided to first export groups that I need which are beginning with "Test":
Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like 'Test*'" |Select-Object Name | Export-csv -path \Groups.csv
Now I want to use information from Groups.csv to list all user displayName for groups listed in Groups.csv so I tried something like that:
Import-Csv -Path .\Groups.csv | Get-ADGroupMember ForEach($Name in $Groups) | Get-ADObject -Properties displayName | Export-csv -path \UsersByGroups.csv
unfortunately it does not work properly maybe because I still do not get exactly how to use ForEach
Can someone with more experience have a look and help?
Thanks!
Maciej
Just pipe the groups output by Get-ADGroup -Filter ... directly to Get-ADGroupMember:
Get-ADGroup -Filter "name -like 'Test*'" |Get-ADGroupMember |Get-ADObject -Properties displayName
I'm trying to retrieve only enabled users in the AD. When I run this code line it returns the error. I tried using a filter as well to filter only enabled users for the requested info but it returns ALL users from every domain instead of just the single id.
Get-ADUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'enabled -eq 'true''.
This is my code that is throwing the error.
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'Animal Shop A' | Get-ADUser -Filter '*' | Get-ADUser Where "enabled -eq 'true'" | Get-ADUser -Properties ('Mail')
This one returns ALL users from every domain
Get-ADGroupMember -Identity 'Animal Shop A' | Get-ADUser -Filter "enabled -eq'true'" | Get-ADUser -Properties ('Mail')
Is my syntax wrong on both of them? If I just want to return values from say "Animal shop A" and then "Animal Shop B"
.. or a little bit shorter this way:
Get-ADUser -Filter 'enabled -eq $true' -Properties mail |
Select-Object -Property Name,samaccountname,mail
Besides this I would recommend to use a -SearchBase. That's less stressful for the AD. ;-)
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties mail | Where { $_.Enabled -eq $True} | Select Name,samaccountname,mail
That will get all enabled users in your target domain that are enabled and display the name, username, and mail properties
Important to know for both commands:
You must work with an elevated powershell process.
Otherwise the result may not be complete.
get-aduser -filter 'enabled -eq "true"' -ResultSetSize $Null
simply try below commands in powershell as administrator permission.
As a guide, the first part will filter users, second part filtered enabled users and last part will give you export of results.
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Property Enabled | Where-Object {$_.Enabled -like “false”} | Export-Csv -Path C:\eport.csv -Encoding ascii -NoTypeInformation
hope to be useful for you.
So I have looked everywhere online, including here and something that should work, doesn't and I am out of ideas. I want to add all AD Objects from one OU to a specific security group. This is what I have (and from reading online, should work):
$ADObjects = "OU.Containing.AD.Objects"
$AddGroup = "DN.of.group.adding.objects.to"
Get-ADComputer -SearchBase $ADObjects -Filter * | ForEach-Object{Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'Corporate Office Computers' -Members $_ -WhatIf}
When I run this, all the WhatIf messages appear and no errors show however once completed, none of the items from the $ADObjects OU are added. Any suggestions?
I think you might not understand the "WhatIf" switch. This will prevent any changes actually being actioned and will report "What if" would happen if the switch was not there. The following code worked on my system:
$ADObjects = "OU=Desktops,DC=MyDomain,DC=com"
$AddGroup = "GroupAddingObjectsTo"
Get-ADComputer -SearchBase $ADObjects -Filter * | ForEach-Object {Add-ADGroupMember -Identity $AddGroup -Members $_}
I'm trying to remove all the principal group memberships starting with the name of all computer accounts in one specific ou.
I've tried browsing to the OU with the AD provider, typing gci and getting a list of all the computers in the ou to find their ADPrincipalGroupMembership which works. Also, using get-adcomputer -searchbase <ou> -filter * works too. But I can't then remove every group that each machine is a member of.
When I then try to expand on that with remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership, my input for the groups to remove are system.string and remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership won't accept that. I have something like this so far/
Get-ADComputer -SearchBase 'OU=blahblah' -Filter * |
Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -MemberOf (Get-ADGroup -Filter 'name -like "17"')
I've read help and examples but I can't find how to do this. I don't want to give up and just use the gui :)
thank you
You can try this...I am not able to test it to confirm it works, but I think it should.
$Comps = Get-ADComputer -SearchBase 'OU=blahblah' -Filter * -Prop MemberOf
Foreach ($Comp in $Comps)
{
$Groups = $Comp.MemberOf | ? {$_ -like "CN=17*"}
if ($Groups)
{
Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $Comp -MemberOf $Groups -Whatif #-Confirm $False
}
}
Assuming it works with the -whatif statement, by default I believe that command will prompt you if you're sure about each removal which could be a pain so you could uncomment -confirm $false to try and avoid that.
Also it is assuming the distinguished name of each group is going to be something along the lines of
CN=17groupA,OU=Computer Groups,OU=Computer,DC=TEST,DC=NET