Questions tagged [get-aduser]
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Pulling Users Emails with PowerShell Script
I have script that will search within an OU and display username, names, AD group and description.
$ou = 'distinguishedName of the OU'
Get-ADGroup -Filter * -SearchBase $ou -Properties Description | ForEach-Object {
foreach($member in…

S.Mahmood
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Using a variable in Get-ADUser -Filter - PowerShell version 7
When using Visual Studio Code and PSverion 7.2.6 I am no longer able to use a variable in Get-ADUser Filter.
Command:
Get-ADUser -server $DC -Filter 'sAMAccountName -eq $Input' -Properties $sProperties | Select $sProperties
getting this…

Tihomir Buncic
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Struggling with PSCustomObject in Compare-Object
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Anyone understand why I'm receiving the following error for my title property in my PSCustomObject inside a foreach? I understand what the error is stating, just confused on the 'why' of it.
Everything else works, I'm confused why…

Nvlddmkm
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How do I get "Get-ADGroupMember $group | get-aduser -Properties enabled |select enabled" to return a singe result?
I'm trying to get@{n='Active';e={(Get-ADGroupMember $group | get-aduser -Properties enabled |select enabled).enabled}} to read the samaccount name and return whether the user is enabled or disabled. However the code returns true and false for all…

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Retrieving an empty attribute from a users account in AD using "Get-ADUser" returns null - but not null?
I'm running into trouble trying to automate a task on our Domain Controllers using a PowerShell script.
To make a long story short: I wrote a PowerShell script that retrieves the contents of specific attribute in a users account in Active Directory,…

Ashton Terry
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PowerShell Active Directory - Can't use array value in filter for Get-ADUser
I have two variables; $test and $accounts[0].upn
Both are Strings, both contain the exact same value.
When I run:
Get-ADUser -Filter "UserPrincipalName -eq '$test'"
I get the result I want, however when I run:
Get-ADUser -Filter "UserPrincipalName…

rickymartino
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How to filter users based on several criteria in Powershell when using Get-AdUser
I have a question that I was hoping someone could help me with, please. I am trying to get a list of users who meet this criteria using get-adusers:
AD field “department” in ('Sales & Admin - All', 'Field - Support','HKLM - All', 'SOD - 1','Home -…

Mike Jones
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Get-ADUser takes too long when filtering and using IF ELSE statements
A while ago I've posted a question about exporting specific users information from AD to .CSV file (here).
Thanks to the help of Santiago Squarzon I managed to make it work and filter just the way I want, except for one small detail - it takes the…

shalan
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PowerShell Get-ADUser - Using custom AD attibutes as IF condition
What I need to do is to export specific AD users and some of their properties to a CSV file. What I need to have there is some of the default properties like Name, SamAccountName, Enabled and some custom ones: businesscategory, extensionAttribute9…

shalan
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Manager checking through powershell and Get-ADUser
Below is a section of code I'm struggling to get operation. This is part of a larger script to create AD users. The purpose is to verify if the email address supplied exists and if it does, store it as the $UserManager (Manager) variable to be…

CrowbarTM
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Powershell Show-Menu script not getting any result from get-ADuser
I'm not getting any result from user's input.. but this message:
Get-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'
My apologies, I'm just a starter in PS. what am I doing wrong here?
I'm trying to get the input from the user in to the…

Toon
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get a count of users in all OUs and total the count
there was a question posted along time ago about getting a count of users in an OU. the answer to the questions was great (thank you Eric Nord) and I was able to use it to figure out most of what I need but I was hoping someone could help me figure…

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PowerShell Find Users from First/Last Name, Error not showing on special Character
I have a list of EN/FR users that have special characters in them. I am trying to get their SamAccountName but the script doesn't work correctly:
Remove-Variable * -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; Remove-Module *;…

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Get-ADUser -Server: add port
I need to connect to port 636 of a server and I'm using the "-Server" option. The official doc says that you can put "Fully qualified directory server name and port", but it doesn't work for me, i tried to put "server:port" and "server port" and…

FID-FB
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Get AD Group Member Groups and Find Those Group Notes in One Query
I would like to find an AD group user's group's that their in and to find what those different group's notes are.
Right now, I'm trying this
Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership "username" | Get-ADUser -Properties info,description
Which is giving errors.…

Michael
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