Using get-aduser -filter to find blank spaces only

Hello all,
What I'm trying to do is pretty simple. I want to use the -filter parameter of the get-aduser cmdlet to find a defined attribute that only contains a space. For example, I want to find any users that have extensionattribute1 equal to " ". I've
tried the following code but I get the error "the search filter cannot be recognized":
get-aduser -filter {extensionattribute1 -eq " "}
What I don't want to use is -like "* *", as that will give me values that contain a space anywhere. I only want to return users that have extensionattribute1 equal to one space.
Any ideas?

Yes, in LDAP syntax you can escape any character with the backslash escape character followed by the two character hex ASCII representation of what you want. You can get foreign characters this way. More on escaping characters here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5312.active-directory-characters-to-escape.aspx
Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

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How do I use Get-ADUser to get just the Managers attribute? And then get rid of duplicates in my array/hash table?

Hello,
I am trying to just get the Managers of my users in Active Directory. I have gotten it down to the user and their manager, but I don't need the user. Here is my code so far:
Get-ADUser-filter*-searchbase"OU=REDACTED,
OU=Enterprise Users, DC=REDACTED, DC=REDACTED"-PropertiesManager|SelectName,@{N='Manager';E={(Get-ADUser$_.Manager).Name}}
|export-csvc:\managers.csv-append
Also, I need to get rid of the duplicate values in my hash table. I tried playing around with -sort unique, but couldn't find a place it would work. Any help would be awesome.
Thanks,
Matt

I would caution that, although it is not likely, managers can also be contact, group, or computer objects. If this is possible in your situation, use Get-ADObject in place of Get-ADUser inside the curly braces.
Also, if you only want users that have a manager assigned, you can use -LDAPFilter "(manager=*)" in the first Get-ADUser.
Finally, if you want all users that have been assigned the manager for at least one user, you can use:
Get-ADUser
-LDAPFilter "(directReports=*)" |
Select @{N='Manager';E={ (Get-ADUser
$_.sAMAccountName).Name }}
-Unique | Sort Manager |
Export-Csv .\managerList.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

Help with get-aduser -filter command

Hi! I'm having problems with getting user info from displayname
function searchuzv {
$uzvinfo=$InputBoxuzv.text;
$uzvcheck = Get-ADUser -filter "DisplayName -like '*$uzvinfo*'"
If i run Get-ADUser -filter "DisplayName -like '*$uzvinfo*'" line separately, everything is ok, and working, but when I run function, I m getting error "Get-ADUser : The search filter cannot be recognized"
My objective is get user info when only part of displayname is provided.
I suppose there is problem with syntax, but I can't find anything about this.
Any suggestions?
Bert regards,
Ronald

Hi Ronald,
Try this.
function searchuzv
$uzvinfo=$InputBoxuzv.text
$uzvDisp = "*"+$uzvinfo+"*"
$uzvcheck = Get-ADUser -filter "DisplayName -like $uzvDisp"
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Get-ADUser lastLogonTimestamp is reporting blank

Hey guys,
I'm simply looking to get a list of users and their last login, in it's simplest form I'm trying this:
Get-ADUser -filter * -searchbase 'CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com,DC=au' -Properties name,lastLogonTimestamp | select name,lastLogonTimestamp | out-gridview
Which works in a way, the problem is that most of the 'lastLoginTimestamp' properties are empty. If I go through AD Explorer (from SysInternals) there is definitely a value in that property. Even if I test with my own user name that logs in every day
it returns blank.
If they were all blank I would look at a problem in the script, but some of them DO return the correct value.
Is there something I'm missing?

Hi,
Please take a look at following links about lastlogon and lastlogontimestamp attributes.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/04/15/the-lastlogontimestamp-attribute-what-it-was-designed-for-and-how-it-works.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/1ae08081-dcfe-44cd-bc3b-f5ac26d53f76/difference-between-lastlogon-and-lastlogontimestamp
Please also try with following examples:
To collect user's lastlogon attribute across ALL DCs in domain: (Some user may have different last logon value on different DCs)
foreach ($dc in (Get-ADDomainController -Filter "domain -eq '$((Get-ADDomain).DnsRoot)'" | % { $_.HostName} ) ) { Get-ADUser -Filter '*' -searchbase 'CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com,DC=au' -Server $dc -Properties LastLogon | Select SamAccountName, LastLogon, @{n='LastLogonDC'; e={ $dc }} }
To collect users' latest lastlogon attribute:
$( foreach ($dc in (Get-ADDomainController -Filter "domain -eq '$((Get-ADDomain).DnsRoot)'" | % { $_.HostName} ) ) { Get-ADUser -Filter '*' -searchbase 'CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com,DC=au' -Server $dc -Properties LastLogon | Select SamAccountName, LastLogon, @{n='LastLogonDC'; e={ $dc }} } ) | Group SamAccountName | % { ($_.Group | sort lastLogon -Descending)[0] } | select SamAccountName, lastlogon,@{n='LastLogon1'; e={ (Get-Date $_.LastLogon).ToLocalTime() }}, LastLogonDC
You can pipe the above code with Export-CSV or grid view.
Without using AD module:
$adSearcher = [adsisearcher]""
$adSearcher.Filter = '(&(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=person))'
$adSearcher.PageSize = 1000
$adSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add('LastLogon')
$adSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add('SamAccountName')
$( foreach ( $dc in ([System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain()).DomainControllers ) { $adSearcher.SearchRoot = 'LDAP://'+$dc.name; $adSearcher.FindAll() | select @{n='SamAccountName'; e={ $_.properties.samaccountname}}, @{n='LastLogonDC'; e= { $dc.name}}, @{n='LastLogon'; e={ $_.properties.lastlogon}} } ) | Group SamAccountName | % { ($_.Group | sort lastLogon -Descending)[0] } | select SamAccountName, LastLogon, @{n='LastLogon1'; e={ (Get-Date $_.LastLogon).ToLocalTime() }}, LastLogonDC
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Get-ADUser -Filter {extensionAttribute1 -ne "aaa"} to get the users

I need get these users who's extensionAttribute1 is null or blank.
I can run this commamd well :
Get-ADUser -Filter {extensionAttribute1 -eq "aaa"} -SearchBase "OU=Sales,OU=aaa,DC=ccc,DC=ddd,DC=org"
but when i change the "-eq" with "-ne", this command return nothing.
Get-ADUser -Filter {extensionAttribute1 -ne "aaa"} -SearchBase "OU=Sales,OU=aaa,DC=ccc,DC=ddd,DC=org"
Anyone can please help me to check the problem?
thanks and regards,
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Hi,
You can use the PowerShell command given below, to get the names of AD Users whose extensionAttribute1 is null or blank,
Get-ADUser -Filter {extensionAttribute1 -notlike "*"} -SearchBase "OU=Sales,OU=aaa,DC=ccc,DC=ddd,DC=org" | select name
FYI:
To get the names of AD Users with any value set for extensionAttribute1 as,
Get-ADUser -Filter {extensionAttribute1 -like "*"} -SearchBase "OU=Sales,OU=aaa,DC=ccc,DC=ddd,DC=org" | select name
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Some user Accounts have no "status" string when using Get-ADUser command.

Hello!
I encountered a problem. When I tryed to get list of all disabled accounts in the AD, I used the command Get-ADUser -Filter 'Enabled -eq $false' .
But i recieved a list of users which is not full.
So I checked again and compared 2 accounts, both a disabled but one had a "Status" string, and the second had not.
In gui Snap-in all Disabled accounts marked as disabled.
So I can' t get a list of disabled users right now.
So here is an Example:
DistinguishedName : CN=User1,OU=OU2,OU=OU1,DC=Domain, DC=ru
Enabled : False
GivenName :
Name : Name
ObjectClass : user
ObjectGUID : 3daeb58d-47f1-47a9-ad5b-bec5fd804ac0
SamAccountName : user1
SID : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-2418
Surname : Surname
UserPrincipalName : [email protected]
PS C:\Users\smb_khvatov> Get-ADUser komarova
DistinguishedName : CN=User2,OU=OU2,OU=OU1,DC=Domain, DC=ru
GivenName : Name
Name : Name
ObjectClass : user
ObjectGUID : df8cdf8d-b0ff-4d0b-941e-3cd65d722394
SamAccountName : User2
SID : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-16161
Surname : Surname
UserPrincipalName :[email protected]

Hope I understood you correctly:
2 Blocked Accounts
First one is a normal (has a "enable" string)
Second one is without "enable" string.
PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-aduser bychkov -properties *
AccountExpirationDate :
accountExpires : 9223372036854775807
AccountLockoutTime :
AccountNotDelegated : False
adminCount : 1
AllowReversiblePasswordEncryption : False
BadLogonCount :
CannotChangePassword : False
CanonicalName : DOMAIN.RU/Desktop/IT/Nikolay Bychkov
Certificates : {}
City :
CN : Nikolay Bychkov
codePage : 0
Company :
CompoundIdentitySupported : {False}
Country :
countryCode : 0
Created : 5/12/2010 4:20:23 AM
createTimeStamp : 5/12/2010 4:20:23 AM
Deleted :
Department :
Description :
DisplayName : Nikolay Bychkov
DistinguishedName : CN=Nikolay Bychkov,OU=IT,OU=Desktop,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
Division :
DoesNotRequirePreAuth : False
dSCorePropagationData : {12/31/1600 4:00:00 PM}
EmailAddress : [email protected]
EmployeeID :
EmployeeNumber :
Enabled : False
Fax :
GivenName :
HomeDirectory :
HomedirRequired : False
HomeDrive :
homeMDB : CN=Russia HO,CN=Offices
SG,CN=InformationStore,CN=RUS-ML-02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
homeMTA : CN=Microsoft MTA,CN=RUS-ML-02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
HomePage :
HomePhone :
Initials :
instanceType : 4
isDeleted :
KerberosEncryptionType : {None}
LastBadPasswordAttempt :
LastKnownParent :
LastLogonDate : 6/7/2012 4:47:35 AM
lastLogonTimestamp : 129835432554560428
legacyExchangeDN : /o=Company/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=Bychkov
LockedOut : False
LogonWorkstations :
mail : [email protected]
mailNickname : Bychkov
Manager : CN=Administrator,OU=IT,OU=Russia,OU=Users,OU=My Users and
Groups,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
mDBUseDefaults : True
MemberOf : {CN=Taxi,CN=Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU,
CN=TS_Users,OU=Security,OU=Groups,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU,
CN=WS-FUTURA_ADM,OU=Security,OU=Groups,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU}
MNSLogonAccount : False
MobilePhone :
Modified : 1/28/2014 6:30:40 AM
modifyTimeStamp : 1/28/2014 6:30:40 AM
msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes : 0
msDS-User-Account-Control-Computed : 8388608
msExchHideFromAddressLists : True
msExchHomeServerName : /o=Company/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=RUS-ML-02
msExchMailboxGuid : {190, 164, 153, 18...}
msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor : System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurity
msExchMailboxTemplateLink : CN=730,CN=ELC Mailbox Policies,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
msExchMDBRulesQuota : 256
msExchPoliciesIncluded : {{1D2FFDEC-44A9-4E96-A1FD-0744A455AE4D},{26491CFC-9E50-4857-861B-0CB8DF22B5D7}}
msExchRecipientDisplayType : 1073741824
msExchRecipientTypeDetails : 1
msExchUserAccountControl : 0
msExchUserCulture : ru-RU
msExchVersion : 4535486012416
Name : Nikolay Bychkov
nTSecurityDescriptor : System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurity
ObjectCategory : CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
ObjectClass : user
ObjectGUID : 3daeb58d-47f1-47a9-ad5b-bec5fd804ac0
objectSid : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-2418
Office :
OfficePhone :
Organization :
OtherName :
PasswordExpired : True
PasswordLastSet : 10/24/2011 5:06:59 AM
PasswordNeverExpires : False
PasswordNotRequired : False
POBox :
PostalCode :
PrimaryGroup : CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
primaryGroupID : 513
PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount : {}
ProfilePath :
ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion : False
protocolSettings : {HTTP§1§1§§§§§§, OWA§1}
proxyAddresses : {X400:C=RU;A= ;P=Company;O=Exchange;S=Bychkov;, SMTP:[email protected]
pwdLastSet : 129639316194314373
SamAccountName : Bychkov
sAMAccountType : 805306368
ScriptPath :
sDRightsEffective : 0
ServicePrincipalNames : {}
SID : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-2418
SIDHistory : {}
SmartcardLogonRequired : False
State :
StreetAddress :
Surname :
textEncodedORAddress : C=RU;A= ;P=Company;O=Exchange;S=Bychkov;
Title :
TrustedForDelegation : False
TrustedToAuthForDelegation : False
UseDESKeyOnly : False
userAccountControl : 514
userCertificate : {}
UserPrincipalName : [email protected]
uSNChanged : 18508
uSNCreated : 17066
whenChanged : 1/28/2014 6:30:40 AM
whenCreated : 5/12/2010 4:20:23 AM
PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-aduser komarova -properties *
AccountExpirationDate :
accountExpires :
AccountLockoutTime :
BadLogonCount :
CannotChangePassword : False
CanonicalName :
Certificates : {}
City :
CN : Veronika Komarova
codePage : 0
Company :
CompoundIdentitySupported : {}
Country :
countryCode : 0
Created :
Deleted :
Department :
Description :
DisplayName : Veronika Komarova
DistinguishedName : CN=Veronika Komarova,OU=Product Department,OU=Office,OU=Russia,OU=Users,OU=My
Users and Groups,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
Division :
EmailAddress : [email protected]
EmployeeID :
EmployeeNumber :
Fax :
GivenName : Veronika
HomeDirectory :
HomeDrive :
homeMDB : CN=Russia HO,CN=Offices
SG,CN=InformationStore,CN=RUS-ML-02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
homeMTA : CN=Microsoft MTA,CN=RUS-ML-02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
HomePage :
HomePhone :
Initials :
instanceType :
internetEncoding : 0
isDeleted :
KerberosEncryptionType : {}
LastBadPasswordAttempt :
LastKnownParent :
LastLogonDate :
legacyExchangeDN : /o=Company/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=komarova
LogonWorkstations :
mail : [email protected]
mailNickname : komarova
Manager :
mDBUseDefaults : True
MemberOf : {}
MobilePhone :
Modified :
msExchHomeServerName : /o=Company/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=RUS-ML-02
msExchMailboxGuid : {166, 229, 120, 212...}
msExchMailboxSecurityDescriptor : System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurity
msExchMDBRulesQuota : 64
msExchPoliciesIncluded : {{1D2FFDEC-44A9-4E96-A1FD-0744A455AE4D},{26491CFC-9E50-4857-861B-0CB8DF22B5D7}}
msExchRecipientDisplayType : 1073741824
msExchRecipientTypeDetails : 1
msExchUserAccountControl : 0
msExchUserCulture : ru-RU
msExchVersion : 4535486012416
Name : Veronika Komarova
nTSecurityDescriptor : System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurity
ObjectCategory : CN=Person,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
ObjectClass : user
ObjectGUID : df8cdf8d-b0ff-4d0b-941e-3cd65d722394
objectSid : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-16161
Office :
OfficePhone :
Organization :
OtherName :
PasswordLastSet :
POBox :
PostalCode :
PrimaryGroup : CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU
primaryGroupID : 513
PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount : {}
ProfilePath :
ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion : False
proxyAddresses : {smtp:[email protected], SMTP:[email protected]}
SamAccountName : komarova
sAMAccountType : 805306368
ScriptPath :
sDRightsEffective : 0
ServicePrincipalNames : {}
showInAddressBook : {CN=Default Global Address List,CN=All Global Address Lists,CN=Address Lists
Container,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU, CN=All Users,CN=All
Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=RU}
SID : S-1-5-21-516317273-842993208-2210532530-16161
SIDHistory : {}
sn : Komarova
State :
StreetAddress :
Surname : Komarova
Title :
userCertificate : {}
UserPrincipalName : [email protected]

Get-aduser -Filter email address

Hi, I have a csv file with a email address and the employ ID. I which to update the emply id according to the email address
csv:
Email;employerID;FirstName;LastName;
[email protected];123456789;a;a;
[email protected];789456123;b;b;
I tried querying the user according to email but the user is not found:
$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {Get-aduser -Filter { emailaddress -Like $u.email} -Properties emailaddress}
Which i find strange, because when i run following commandlet the correct address are displayed.
$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {write-host $u.email}
I even tried, but same result:
$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {Get-aduser -Filter { emailaddress -Like $($u.email)} -Properties emailaddress}
What am i doing wrong?
Answers provided are coming from personal experience, and come with no warranty of success. I as everybody else do make mistakes.

Get-aduser : Property: 'email' not found in object of type: 'System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject'.This implies that the object $u does not have a property named email.$test = Import-csv -Path \\tsclient\c\temp\test.csv -delimiter ";"
Foreach ($u in $test) {$u.email}

Get-aduser -filter -memberof group name issues

I want to use powershell to return all users who are domain admins into a CSV
Are these commands close to what I should be doing?
get-aduser -filter -memberof "domain admin"
get-adgroupmember -filter "-eq 'Domain Admin'"
Then I will exporting to CSV with this working part of the script.
-Properties * | Select-Object -Property Name,DisplayName,Title,EmailAddress,GivenName,sn,StreetAddress,Office,City,State,PostalCode,Country,OfficePhone,Company,HomePhone,mobile,Department | Sort-Object -Property Name | export-csv c:\UserPropertiesCSV.csv

If you want more information than is being returned by Get-ADGroupMember, you can pipe the results into Get-ADUser.
Get-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" |
Get-ADUser -properties Displayname, Title, EmailAddress, GivenName, sn, StreetAddress, Office, City, State, PostalCode, Country, OfficePhone, Company, HomePhone, Mobile, Department |
Select-Object Name, DisplayName, Title, EmailAddress, GivenName, sn, StreetAddress, Office, City, State, PostalCode, Country, OfficePhone, Company, HomePhone, Mobile, Department |
Export-CSV ".\results.csv"

Get-AdUser -Filter for homeDirectory

I guess there's something I don't know about -filter syntax for this command...
get-aduser -filter {homeDirectory -like "*\faculty\homes\*"} -property homeDirectory
returns results, but...
get-aduser -filter {homeDirectory -like "\\faculty\homes\*"} -property homeDirectory
...will not. All results returned by the first have homes starting with \\faculty\homes\...
What gives?

Hi,
you need to use the LDAP escape character for \, which is \5c
So, you could write it like this:
$DirectoryInfo = Get-Item \\server\share\User1HomeDirectory
$strFilter = $DirectoryInfo.FullName.Replace("\","\5c")
$AdUser = Get-AdUser -Filter {homeDirectory -like $strFilter}
If ($AdUser.HomeDirectory -like $DirectoryInfo.FullName) { #not abandoned home directory }
/Fridden
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Pages and numbers will not take dictation and iOS 8. Very frustrating screen goes blank no keypad. I have to close the document In order to get rid of the big blank space where the keyboard should ber

Pages and Numbers will not take dictation in iOS 8 on my iPad 4 and iPad mini.
Very frustrating -screen goes blank where keyboard should be when I touch the microphone- no keypad & dictation does not record. I have to close the document In order to get rid of the big blank space where the keyboard should be. When is this going to be fixed?it's making recordkeeping Pages and Numbers, which I use heavily, almost impossible.
also dictation in other locations such as Mail put capitals in the middle of sentences and sometimes don't capitalize first letter in a sentence (see first letter of this sentence!) and other instances like the months of the year or the days of the week. Is anyone else having these problems?

Pages and Numbers will not take dictation in iOS 8 on my iPad 4 and iPad mini.
Very frustrating -screen goes blank where keyboard should be when I touch the microphone- no keypad & dictation does not record. I have to close the document In order to get rid of the big blank space where the keyboard should be. When is this going to be fixed?it's making recordkeeping Pages and Numbers, which I use heavily, almost impossible.
also dictation in other locations such as Mail put capitals in the middle of sentences and sometimes don't capitalize first letter in a sentence (see first letter of this sentence!) and other instances like the months of the year or the days of the week. Is anyone else having these problems?

Setting default value to NULL values when using Get-ADUser

I am running a simple command of
Get-ADUser -properties * | Select firstname, lastname, department | Export-Csv results.csv -NoTypeInformation
If the users department field is NULL, I would like to set a default value of "NODEPT" within my CSV results. I have tried a ForEach loop statement but I can't seem to figure this one out.
What is not explicitly allowed should be implicitly denied

Hi,
Try this:
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties department |
Select GivenName,Surname,@{N='Department';E={ If ($_.Department) { $_.Department } Else { 'NODEPT' } }} |
Export-Csv .\userList.csv -NoTypeInformation
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Get-rid of the format we get using Get-ADuser in a CSV. Send CSV data in an email in table format

Hi,
I am using get-ADuser in order to extract a few AD attributes of some users. I export the users and their respective attributes to a CSV. However, the output in CSV i get has the following format in each cell for its AD attribute.
@{description=<Value>} or @ { info=<Value>}
I have tried to use Expandproperty switch in order to get rid of it but it does not accept null values and hence if a user has no value for a said attribute, the previous value is copied for that user too. However, without expand property it gives me the
above format in the output.
$Desc = Get-ADUser $Username -Properties description | select description
I would like the cells to contain only values and not this format along.
Also, once I have the CSV with values I would also like to copy the values from CSV in an email in the form of a TABLE. I have been able to copy the content in an email using the following however, this in not in a table format.
$mail = Import-Csv $newlogonfile | Out-String
Please HELP!

Yes I am already using Export-Csv but still getting the same kind of format in output :-
$Username = $Event.Properties[5].Value
$Title_var = get-aduser $Username -properties Title | select Title
$Ofc_phone = get-aduser $Username -Properties OfficePhone | select OfficePhone
$Info_var = get-aduser $Username -properties info | select info
$Display_Name = get-aduser $Username -properties DisplayName | select DisplayName
$Mail = Get-ADUser $Username -Properties Mail | select Mail
$Desc = Get-ADUser $Username -Properties description | select description
$Props = @{
User = $Event.Properties[5].Value;
TimeCreated = $Event.TimeCreated;
LogonType = $Event.Properties[8].Value;
DCName = $Event.MachineName;
Workstation_address = $Event.Properties[18].Value;
Title = $Title_var;
OfficePhone = $Ofc_phone;
Info = $Info_var;
DisplayName = $Display_Name;
Description = $Desc;
EMail = $Mail
$LogonRecord = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $Props
$Result += $LogonRecord
$Result | Export-Csv -Path $logFile -append -UseCulture -NoTypeInformation # Log it to CSV
OUTPUT has values in this format in the CSV :-
@{info=} @{description=abc} @{DisplayName=} @{Officephone=}
@{Mail=[email protected]}

Using Get-ADUser but 3.0 needs a filter? What changed?

I'm trying to just do a basic query of AD attributes from a text file of SamAccountNames I have, but I'm upgraded to PowerShell ISE 3.0 and there might be some things new I'm not understanding.
I was just trying to do something simple like this; Get-Content C:\Scripts\userabrivs.txt | ForEach { Get-ADUser -Properties * } | Export-csv C:\scripts\Output\adusers1
but in ISE it always asks for
cmdlet Get-ADUser at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
(Type !? for Help.)
Filter:
I'm not very good at this so can someone help me understand why it needs a filter when I'm just asking it to use the list of SamAccountNames I have in a text file?

Hi,
You're never telling Get-ADUser which user you want to return. Try this instead:
Get-Content .\userList.txt | ForEach {
Get-ADUser -Identity $_ -Properties *
} | Export-Csv .\userProperties.csv
I highly recommend only returning the properties you need, the wildcard will return more information than most people want to look at.
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Using get-aduser to search for enabled users in entire domain filter ..

Hi,
my first post here.
I have the following problem. I am trying to figure out to create a powershell command (with get-aduser) that searches for only enabled
users (in the entire domain), whose user account login names starts with "b" or "B" (because their user account login names are composed of Bnnnnn, n=numbers). I suppose that a string of "B*" in the command should be sufficient. The query result
must show the user account login name (Bnnnnn), first name
and last name and the enabled (yes) status of those enabled users. I would like to write the entire query result to a file (csv format), saving it to c: for example
Please help. Thanks in advance

I use -LDAPFilter mostly because I am used to the LDAP syntax. It can be used in PowerShell, VBScript, dsquery, VB, and many command line utilities (like Joe Richards' free adfind utility). Active Directory is an LDAP compliant database.
The PowerShell -Filter syntax can do the same things, but the properties it exposes are really aliases. I'm used to the AD attribute names, like sAMAccountName and userAccountControl. PowerShell uses things like "enabled" and "surname", which are aliases
you need to know or look up. For example, the Get-ADUser default and extended properties, with the actual AD attributes they are based on, are documented here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12037.active-directory-get-aduser-default-and-extended-properties.aspx
Finally, note that the "Name" property refers to the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN) of the object, which for user objects is the value of the cn attribute (the Common Name of the user). This may not uniquely identify the user, as it only needs to be unique
in the parent OU/container. The user login name (pre-Windows 2000 logon name) is the value of the sAMAccountName attribute, which must be unique in the domain. In the Wiki article I linked, we see that the PowerShell alias for this attribute is "SamAccountName"
(in this case the name of the property matches the name of the AD attribute). All of this can be confusing.
Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

How do i get rid of this annoying blank space?

I'm using Pages '09 v4.03 on a Mac with OSX 10.9.1 on a MacBook Pro.
Many of the documents I use on a daily basis are created by others, and I don't know what they're doing to make this annoying blank space appear on my documents. The screenshot below shows the irritating area in the oval. My view is set to page width.
Wierd thing is...when I go to fullscreen mode, that gray bar is still there! It's something about the page width setting, perhaps?
How can I only view the document? Help!
Oops! forgot to attach screenshot!
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