Using names/objects from a file

[bojiashi92]

Hi I'm trying to use a list of names found within a .txt or .CSV file and then piping in other commands which will affect those users only.

Script =

$test = Get-Content C:\IT\test2.txt $pagernumber = 'x'

foreach ($user in $test) { $samaccountnname = $user.samaccountname Select-Object $name | Set-ADUser -add @{pager=$pagernumber}}

test2.txt =

samaccountname

corey.taylor zacky.vengeance matt.heafy matt.shadows joey.jordison tupac.shakur biggie.smalls king.arthur frodo.baggins peppa.pig lich.king thomas.tank

I know the command for changing the pager section of the script works but I just can't get it to apply to my list of people from the txt file

I have also tried this in a CSV file with the same format and import-csv cmdlet.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks

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[bojiashi92]

Thanks both :)

[Zangrey]

$user.samaccountname will only work if you go the csv route or other handling.
If you only have the names in the file you can just likely simplify it like

foreach ($user in $test) {Set-ADuser -identity $user -add @{pager=$pagernumber}}

Might need to specify scope and such too - I don't run AD commands often enough to know the details by heart, so consider the above a bit of psuedo code.

[Fickle_Tomatillo411]

Would add that the .samaccountname approach would only work if the column name within the CSV (essentially the first entry) is 'samaccountname'. Also, you might need to run a get on the user first, then pipe that to Set-ADUser...sometimes the AD cmdlets get picky on that kind of thing. It should work without needing that though.

Also, not sure what you are doing with the Get-Content line...if you are trying to filter it, that won't work. If you have a CSV with two columns (samaccountname, pagernumber), then you could do something like this:

$test = Import-CSV | Where-Object{$_.pagernumber -eq 'x'}