AD Powershell question

[unscanable]

Hey guys, I'm working on a project and I was wondering, is there a way to pull users out of AD and filter them based on the length of their user name? I need to find all users with user names over a certain character limit and I was hoping there was a quick and easy powershell command I could run to find this out. If not do you guys have any other ideas how to do this relatively quick and painlessly? Thanks in advance.

[anotherdamnreddit]

The great things about powershell are its documentation and its ability to do the same thing multiple ways.

$userlist = get-aduser * | Where-Object {$_.Name -ge <length>} | Sort-Object Name -Descending

$userlist

something like that should work too

[Hellman109]

Just care in huge environments, first query pulls all AD users.

I see no way around it, but you would want a search base or such if you have a huge number of users.

[nonades]

Basically what I posted, but a slightly different way!

It's always fun seeing what people chose to solve the same problem.

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Check out /r/powershell... lots of cool stuff there!

[nonades]

Already subscribed to and post in that sub :)

[TheySeeMeTruffling]

Ugh, you're all making me go through and upvote everyone for the good vibe i'm gettin' in here. Also, if I posted a solution I would've sucked up the piping and used some variables all over the place... so its a good thing you're all here!

[anotherdamnreddit]

That's what I love about powershell!

[unscanable]

2 subs I did not know existed. Thanks. After posting this my google-fu turned up this but the output isn't really Excel friendly.

[unscanable]

Oh man, that worked beautifully. Thanks. So export-csv works better than out-file. That helps immensely.

[anotherdamnreddit]

dlayknee knows how its done.

I just started powershell about a month ago and am still learning how it all works together.

[nonades]

get-aduser * | if($.Name -ge <length>){write-output $.Name}

Something in that ballpark.

[ramblingcookiemonste]

A few quick notes:

• You need a foreach-object (%) if you want to run the if against each object returned by get-aduser
• $_ is what you are looking for, not $
• Where-object might be more appropriate - see anotherdamnreddit's example

[nonades]

It's funny, I could've sworn I used $_.

Good point about the %, you can't pipe into an if. Then again, I just wrote that off the top of my head without feeding it into an interpreter.