Powershell for AD shadowgroups problem

Here is my script. It is well commented, but let me know if something doesn't make sense.Problem - If there are more groups than there are OUs, then the script gets kind of an off-by-one problem and starts putting Sales Computers in the Support-Computers group, etc...I solved this problem by compairing the number of Shadow Groups to the number of unique OUs, and if there are more groups than OUs (like in the case when maybe we merge 2 departments/OUs, or when we rename or remove OUs) it deletes all the shadow groups, and re-creates them. The problem with deleting groups and recreating them is when things like Group Policy, NPS, or File System ACLs use these groups, because they are dependant on the SID, everything gets lost. Can you help me figure out how to keep my shadow groups in sync with the OUs they mirror (both ways) without...
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Sorry for the delayed response. I was away from office for one day and did not have access to the files.
And you are right, column 11 is text and column 26 is date (i.e., numeric). And indeed, those visually blank cell in column 11 are not null but have zero length. Java can tell the difference but not by visually inspecting the cells in the spreadsheet.
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Hi All:
I m planning to write a script, to pull SQL Server Windows Groups members list by using powershell.
By using dsa.msc i can view the members of a particular SQL widows groups., the same i want to do using powershell., is there any way to do this. I want to run this from remote machine.
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