You can speed this up quite a bit by using .NET (in the System.DirectoryServices namespace) - which is almost certainly what the QAD cmdlets do - but you are always going to be limited by the fact that CanonicalName is a constructed attribute.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:24 PM To: powershell@lists.myITforum.com Subject: [powershell] RE: Search For OU Using Filter With CanonicalName in AD Thanks for the information. I came across that while I was researching into this, but I was hoping that there would be a better way to convert/search for this with the newer versions of Powershell/AD cmdlets (the posted solution is 6 years old). Thanks, -Aakash Shah From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Damien Solodow Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 8:03 PM To: powershell@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:powershell@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [powershell] RE: Search For OU Using Filter With CanonicalName in AD Perhaps something like this: http://poshcode.org/512http://poshcode.org/512 ? DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] on behalf of Aakash Shah [aakash.s...@uci.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 10:48 PM To: powershell@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:powershell@lists.myITforum.com> Subject: [powershell] RE: Search For OU Using Filter With CanonicalName in AD If I have the canonical name "domain.com/OU", I am looking for a way to convert this into its corresponding DN value of "OU=OU,DC=domain,DC=com". I plan to then use this to feed other cmdlets like Get-ADUser where the -SearchBase parameter appears to expect a DN value. In my earlier email, I was attempting to search AD for the canonical name using the "-Filter" parameter in Get-ADOrganizationalUnit since it appears to have CanonicalName as an attribute, but I was unsuccessful. My apologies for the confusion. Thank you, -Aakash Shah From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 7:27 PM To: powershell@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:powershell@lists.myitforum.com> Subject: [powershell] RE: Search For OU Using Filter With CanonicalName in AD I don't understand what you are asking for. Please give an example... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Aakash Shah Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:59 PM To: powershell@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:powershell@lists.myITforum.com> Subject: [powershell] Search For OU Using Filter With CanonicalName in AD Is there a clean/efficient way to filter for a canonical name in AD? I tried the following but it did not work: Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter 'CanonicalName -eq "domain.com/OU"' -Properties 'CanonicalName' When I looked up other solutions, I found some sources where the string is parsed and manually pieced together as a DN entry, but I would like to avoid that preferably. I was able to previously do this with the Quest cmdlets but I am working on moving away from them and am trying to find equivalent approaches, if possible. I can pipe Get-ADOrganizationalUnit to a Where cmdlet to then do a search, but it is much slower: Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter * -Properties 'CanonicalName' | Where-Object {$_.CanonicalName -eq 'domain.com/OU'} Or, if anyone has information on using built in commands to convert a canonical name to a DN value, that would also be appreciated (the solutions I found also manually pieced each block together). Thanks, -Aakash Shah ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1 ================================================ Did you know you can also post and find answers on PowerShell in the forums? http://www.myitforum.com/forums/default.asp?catApp=1
