v1 but got the basics down and is free. http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Glen Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > > One of my goals for this year is to learn PS so I’ll have to do lots more > reading. > > > > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:36 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Powershell help > > > > Yeah, this isn’t that easy. > > > > I’d recommend you use adfind with the –excldn argument. > > > > Otherwise what you actually have to do (which adfind does internally) is > compare each result to ensure that it doesn’t match the distinguishedname > for the excluded OU. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:27 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Powershell help > > > > Ok folks. I’m just getting started with PS but I bet someone out there will > spot my errors right away. > > BTW, most of this I found googling so I can’t take credit for writing it. > > What I want to do is retrieve a list of all AD users, except those in the > In-Active Users, OU. > > I’d like the output to include, Name, Account name, Department and Title. > > Here is the script. > > BTW, this is PS2 on a win7 machine. > > > > $strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=User)(!(OU=In-Active Users)))" > > > > $objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry > > > > $objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher > > $objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain > > $objSearcher.PageSize = 1000 > > $objSearcher.Filter = $strFilter > > $objSearcher.SearchScope = "Subtree" > > > > $colProplist = "name", "sAMAccountName", "Department", "Title" > > foreach ($i in $colPropList){$objSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add($i)} > > > > $colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll() > > > > foreach ($objResult in $colResults) > > {$objItem = $objResult.Properties > > $objItem.name, $objItem.sAMAccountName, $objItem.Department, > $objItem.Title > > $Write > > } > > > > And here is what I get as output. I have no clue where the 0,1,2,3 is > coming from. We sure don’t have user accounts with those names. > > > > 0 > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > Administrator > > Glen Johnson > > Guest > > … > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
