How to move users between OU's from an exported list

Question

Hey Guys
New to Powershell
We are going to move large number of users from one OU to another.. For that I am using
get-aduser -filter * -searchbase "OU=ou1,DC=domain" | move-adobject -targetpath "OU=ou2,DC=domain"
As a backout plan we want to reverse that.. so what I am thinking is to right click on the OU1 and export list as txt. So we have all users in a tab/csv format with username.. How can I then write a one liner / script to search for all the users in the list
in AD (or in specific OU2 in AD) and then move them to another OU (or OU1 as above example)?
Or if there is a better quicker method please let me know.
Cheers

Answer 1

Hi,
Here's something to start with:
$targetOU = 'OU=Test 2,DC=domain,DC=com'
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase 'OU=Test 1,DC=domain,DC=com' | ForEach {
$props = @{
Name = $_.Name
Username = $_.SamAccountName
OriginalOU = ($_.DistinguishedName -split ',OU=' -split ',')[1]
NewOU = ''
Status = ''
try {
Move-ADObject -Identity $_.DistinguishedName -TargetPath $targetOU -ErrorAction Stop
$props.NewOU = ($targetOU -split ',' -replace 'OU=','')[0]
$props.Status = 'Success'
} catch {
$props.Status = 'FAILED'
New-Object PsObject -Property $props
} | Sort Name | Select Name,Username,OriginalOU,NewOU,Status | Export-Csv .\userMoveDetails.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Sorry new to coding.. but this looks awefully complicated for my situation.. Won't the code which I have said simple move users from one container to another existing one? Just need to know how to do the reverse if needed .. OU2 will already have users..
so need to differentiate and was thinking the right click on OU1 and export list.
Thanks