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The Powershell Get-Aduser command will help you identify Active Directory (AD) users in your domain. Employees, service accounts, and other resources are given user accounts. AD user accounts will become challenging to manage before you realize it.
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You may acquire AD users in a variety of ways using the Get-AdUser PowerShell cmdlet. In this post, you’ll discover a couple of those methods as well as how to utilize this useful cmdlet.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have the following before using the Get-AdUser cmdlet examples in this article:
Identification of a User Account
The Get-AdUser cmdlet has one and only one function. It exists to give as many domain user search alternatives as feasible. You may use the Identity option if you already know the user name to search up.
You may use one of four alternative IDs using the Identity argument.
- prestigiousName (DN)
- samAccountName
- GUID
- SID
Some instances of locating a user account using different IDs are shown below. It’s worth noting that each user account receives a set of AD properties.
PS> Get-ADUser -Identity abertram DistinguishedName : CN=Anne Bertram,OU=Marketing,DC=mylab,DC=local Enabled : False GivenName : Anne Name : Anne Bertram ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : b98fd0c4-3d5d-4239-8245-b04145d6a0db samAccountName : abertram SID : S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-3142 Surname : Bertram UserPrincipalName : [email protected] PS> Get-ADUser -Identity ‘S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-3142’ DistinguishedName : CN=Anne Bertram,OU=Marketing,DC=mylab,DC=local Enabled : False GivenName : Anne Name : Anne Bertram ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : b98fd0c4-3d5d-4239-8245-b04145d6a0db samAccountName : abertram SID : S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-3142 Surname : Bertram UserPrincipalName : [email protected] PS> Get-ADUser -Identity ‘CN=Anne Bertram,OU=Marketing,DC=mylab,DC=local’ DistinguishedName : CN=Anne Bertram,OU=Marketing,DC=mylab,DC=local Enabled : False GivenName : Anne Name : Anne Bertram ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : b98fd0c4-3d5d-4239-8245-b04145d6a0db samAccountName : abertram SID : S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-3142 Surname : Bertram UserPrincipalName : [email protected]
The samAccountName element is the most often used attribute for the Identity parameter.
The Filter for Get-ADUser
Use a filter if you need to locate more than one domain user or if you don’t have an identity. Filter and LDAPFilter are two parameters you may use to do this.
A conditional statement may be specified for each filter parameter. Get-AdUser will return user accounts that meet this requirement if it is true.
Filter is the most often used parameter to filter people. The Filter argument lets you specify conditions similar to the Where-Object command filter syntax in PowerShell.
PowerShell expression language syntax is used by the Filter parameter. This language is similar to, but not identical to, Where-Object. Check out this article on Active Directory and LDAP filters for further information on how to utilize this filter.
The Filter parameter is used in the example below. This example establishes a condition and supplies an AD attribute (in this case, givenName). The filter only allows users who have a givenName equal to Adam to return.
PS> Get-AdUser -Filter “givenName -eq ‘Adam’” DistinguishedName : CN=ADBertram,OU=Accounting,DC=mylab,DC=local Enabled : False GivenName : Adam Name : ADBertram ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : 8ec5e2a8-1fda-42cb-9406-b1e6356dd457 samAccountName : ADBertram SID : S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-3163 Surname : Bertram UserPrincipalName : ADBertram DistinguishedName : CN=Hughes, Adam,CN=Users,DC=mylab,DC=local Enabled : True GivenName : Adam Name : Hughes, Adam ObjectClass : user ObjectGUID : 96778db3-3dbd-4b83-9183-db111caa2791 samAccountName : ahughes SID : S-1-5-21-4117810001-3432493942-696130396-38201 Surname : Hughes UserPrincipalName :
LDAPFilter is another filtering option that will not be discussed in this article. Check out this article on Active Directory and LDAP filters for additional information on the LDAPFilter and its syntax.
Using OU’s Get-AdUser
By providing an identity or filter, PowerShell returns all users in the domain matching the criteria. It does not limit by OU. You’ll need to set up a “filter” for Get-AdUser to filter by OU using Get-Aduser -SearchBase <OU>.
You may start looking for a user account in a certain OU by using the SearchBase argument. The distinguishing name of an OU is accepted by the SearchBase parameter (DN).
All users, for example, may be found in the MyUsers OU, as illustrated below. To match all user accounts, use the Filter of *.
PS> Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase ‘OU=MyUsers,DC=domain,DC=local’
You could just wish to look for user accounts in a single OU, excluding any child OUs. You might utilize the SearchBase and SearchScope options in such instance. The SearchScope option specifies how deep you want to search inside the OU hierarchy.
Use 1 for the SearchScope value if you want to search all user accounts in an OU as well as all child OUs. You’d use 2 to search through all of your children’s and grandchildren’s OUs.
A search for user accounts in the MyUsers OU and any child OUs under it is shown below.
PS> Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase ‘OU=MyUsers,DC=domain,DC=local’ -SearchScope 2
Using Alternative Identification
Get-AdUser will execute in the context of the currently logged-on user by default. However, you may use the Credential argument to supply other credentials.
To authenticate using other credentials, use Get-Credential to produce a PSCredential object like this:
PS> $cred = Get-Credential PS> Get-AdUser -Filter * -Credential $cred
Check out Using the PowerShell Get-Credential cmdlet and all things credentials for additional information on credentials.
The Get-AdUserProperties parameter in PowerShell
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When you run Get-AdUser, you’ll see that it only returns a few properties. You’ll also notice that all attributes aren’t returned even when the output is fed to Select-Object -Property *.
Use the Property argument in PowerShell to acquire AD user characteristics. This option takes one or more comma-separated characteristics to include in the result.
Get-AdUser is used to get all attributes for all user accounts with the givenName Adam in the example below. Although the output is truncated, other typical elements such as email address, password properties, and more may be found here.
PS> Get-AdUser -Filter “givenName -eq ‘Adam’” -Properties * AccountExpirationDate : accountExpires : 9223372036854775807 AccountLockoutTime : AccountNotDelegated : False AllowReversiblePasswordEncryption : False AuthenticationPolicy : {} AuthenticationPolicySilo : {} BadLogonCount : 0 badPasswordTime : 0 badPwdCount : 0 CannotChangePassword : False CanonicalName : mylab.local/Accounting/ADBertram ……..
Summary
Get-ADUser is a useful command for finding AD user accounts, creating reports, and more. It’s an excellent approach to extract Active Directory users from a domain. By executing Get-Help Get-AdUser, you may get a breakdown of Get-AdUser and its parameters.
Check out the blog article Active Directory Scripts Galore: Come and Get It! for many more examples of how to utilize Get-AdUser.
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