PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 2

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PowerShellIn Part 1 we looked at the Get-ADUser command, and used it to create a list of all users and display their homedrive, homedirectory and scriptpath.

In this post we’ll look at refining the results a little.

We’ll look at sorting the results, only returning results for user accounts that have a login script, and export them to CSV, which is much more useful than exporting the results to a text file.

So, the final command we ended Part 1 with was the following and it returned a text file to us with a list of all users as seen in the image below (I’ve added a few more parameters to users in this example.

Try Get-ADUser -filter * -properties scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | ft Name, scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory > C:\temp\users.txt

export to text from get-aduser

In this next example, I’ve added the where cmdlet to only return results that contain bat in the script path.

Try Get-ADUser -filter * -properties scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | where {$_.scriptpath -like “*bat*”} | ft Name, scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory

get-aduser where scriptpath -like

Now for some reason we may want to sort the list by scriptpath, so we add in the sort-object cmdlet.

Try, Get-ADUser -filter * -properties scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | where {$_.scriptpath -like “*bat*”} | sort-object scriptpath | ft Name, scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory

get-aduser sort-object

And finally, lets export the list to CSV so we can work on it in Excel. In this example we substitute, format table (ft) for select-object.

Try, Get-ADUser -filter * -properties scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | where {$_.scriptpath -like “*bat*”} | sort-object scriptpath | select-object Name, scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | Export-csv -path c:\temp\user-login-script-20130429.csv

get-aduser export to csv

export to csv from get-aduser

Below are some links to invaluable Microsoft Technet references.

Get-ADUser can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617241.aspx

Where cmdlet can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee177028.aspx

Sort-Object cmdlet can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176968.aspx

Select-Object cmdlet can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176955.aspx

Export-csv cmdlet can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176825.aspx

Related Posts:

1. PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 1

2. PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve password last set and expiry information

3. PowerShell: How to add all users in an OU to a Security Group using Get-ADUser and Add-ADGroupMember

4. PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve disabled user accounts

5. PowerShell: How to use Get-ADUser to list all recently created accounts (and recently changed accounts)

 

12 thoughts on “PowerShell: Get-ADUser to retrieve logon scripts and home directories – Part 2”

  2. Mike

    awesome, thanks for the good tips.. One question; how can I make the column width wider for the homedirectory column? It is trucating the content since it seems to default to ~30 characters. Thanks!

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  5. Jordan

    Thank you! Just wanted to mention that there is a space in this line that will make a copy/paste fail:
    $_.scriptpath – like “*bat*”

    should be:
    $_.scriptpath –like “*bat*”

    🙂

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  7. Elbert

    Great Article! Any chance that it can also be filtered by an AD security group along with the $_.scriptpath –like “*bat*”?

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  8. Andrew

    Many thanks. This helped a lot.
    I’m within a AD forest, so perhaps those of you who are in the same situation can benefit from this (I don’t have the home drive in here):
    Get-ADUser -SearchBase “ou=Users,ou=myorg,dc=mydomain,dc=com” -Filter * -properties scriptpath, homedirectory | sort-object scriptpath | select-object Name, scriptpath, homedirectory | Export-csv -path c:\temp\UsersAndtheirScripts.csv

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  9. danijeljw

    Should be adding “-NoTypeInformation” to the end of the script like this:

    Get-ADUser -filter * -properties scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | where {$_.scriptpath -like “*bat*”} | sort-object scriptpath | select-object Name, scriptpath, homedrive, homedirectory | Export-csv -path c:\temp\user-login-script-20130429.csv -NoTypeInformation

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