TechnoGist

In my previous blog entry “Getting Started” I went over downloading and installing the Quest AD Management shell, registering the snapins and running some basic commands using the Get-QADUser CmdLet.

Today I will be looking at the Get-QADGroup CmdLet.
This allows easy access to Active Directory “Group” objects.

As before open a PowerShell Shell window and add in your snapins.

add-pssnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement

Getting the number of members in a group.

(Get-QADGroup "GroupName").members.count

Export out the members of a group to a formatted table including the name,displayname,mail(SMTP) and office for each member.

Function Get-MemberName()
{
Process
{
ForEach($Member In $_)
{
Get-QADUser –ObjectAttributes @{distinguishedName=$Member}
}
}
}
(Get-QADGroup "GroupName").members | Get-MemberName | Format-Table name,displayname,mail,office

I often have to clean up groups by looking for disabled users.
To do this you can just add the “accountisdisabled” property to the script above.

E.g.

(Get-QADGroup "GroupName").members | Get-MemberName | Format-Table name,displayname,mail,office,accountisdisabled

Export out the members of a group to a CSV file with all properties.

Function Get-MemberName()
{
Process
{
ForEach($Member In $_)
{
Get-QADUser –ObjectAttributes @{distinguishedName=$Member}
}
}
}
(Get-QADGroup "GroupName").members | Get-MemberName | Export-Csv "C:\GroupMembers.csv"

Above are some useful examples of using Quest AD CmdLets to enumerate Active Directory Group objects.

Hope this helps.

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Tags: AD, AD CmdLets, attributes, Get-QADGroup, PowerShell, Quest

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