I actually don't really know or need to know the numbers, I just need the OU
that the object belongs to.
Example; I run these commands:
Get-ADObject -filter {(objectClass -eq "User") -and (ObjectCategory -eq
"Person")} | Export-csv C:\Temp\ADUsers.csv
Get-ADObject -filter {(ObjectClass -eq "Contact")} | Export-csv
C:\Temp\ADContacts.csv
Get-ADObject -filter {(ObjectClass -eq "Group")} | Export-csv
C:\Temp\ADGroups.csv
Get-ADObject -filter {(ObjectClass -eq "PrintQueue")} | Export-csv
C:\Temp\ADPrinters.csv
Get-ADObject -filter {(ObjectCategory -eq "Volume")} | Export-csv
C:\Temp\ADSharedFolders.csv
Now I need to go into these csv files and manually clean them up to identify
the different OUs listed within the DN column of each returned object.
I want to cut through that manual work.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Jeremy Brown
Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2014 2:35 PM
To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [scripting] RE: Script to list all AD OUs that conatin certain
object types
How many users, groups, and contacts do you expect it to return? This sounds
like it is going to be a very intensive, time consuming query. I don't know
that you will be able to run it once and it work. There is a default 2 minute
timeout on your commands in powershell, I believe. Also, I am not a fan of
using cmdlets that have to be installed uniquely on a machine. If you wanted
to use builtin powershell cmdlets you could issue something like this:
Get-ADObject -SearchBase "ou=<TopLevelOU>,dc=domain,dc=extension" -LDAPFilter
"(|(objectCategory=user)(objectCategory=group))"
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:49 AM, elsalvoz
<elsal...@gmail.com<mailto:elsal...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I Use powerGUI it should be able gather everything for you. Free
On Feb 26, 2014 1:18 AM, "Lai, Jerry"
<jerry....@hsf.com<mailto:jerry....@hsf.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the reply Aakash. I'll have to look into the Quest cmdlet.
My task is actually related to objects published in AD, so abything outside of
AD I am not really concerned about. It's an information gathering task for the
purpose of migrating to a new domain. We are using Quest Migration Tools to
target OUs (that contain the highlighted objects) to copy/sync over to the new
domain and that's why I need to identify those OUs.
I have very little scripting skills and can only write very basic commands and
was hoping someone had a script similar to what I was trying to find out.
Thanks.
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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>]
On Behalf Of Aakash Shah
Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2014 5:09 AM
To: scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [scripting] RE: Script to list all AD OUs that conatin certain object
types
The groups, contacts and users should be pretty simple. You can use the Quest
cmdlets to gather this information using get-qadobject. This will return a
"Type" and you can further filter from here.
The printers may be harder since unless you chosen to publish them in the
directory, AD has no idea about them afaik (but someone please correct me if
I'm wrong). However, one possible approach may be to target the Group Policies
that are used to deploy the printers to specific OUs, and then query those GPs.
I've never done this, so I don't have any information about this.
The shares are also not guaranteed to be in AD since unless you've chosen to
publish them in the directory, they won't be there. Depending on how your file
server is setup, it may be possible to query the GPs for this information too,
but since shares are not tied to OUs, I'm not sure how to do this definitely.
-Aakash Shah
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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Lai, Jerry
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 8:18 PM
To: 'scripting@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:scripting@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: [scripting] Script to list all AD OUs that conatin certain object types
So I've been tasked to find all OUs that contain specific types of objects,
them being; users, groups, printers, shares and contacts.
I have a few powershell command lines that can output all objects to a csv
file, which will then require quite a bit of manual tidy up.
Does anyone have a script that can do something similar or is there a better
way of finding this info?
Thanks,
Jerry
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