Using the active directory module I need to Get-ADComputer of all the computers in an specific OU and list all their properties.
I tried something like this:
Get-ADComputer -Filter 'DistinguishedName -like "*OU=Testing*"'
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mkrouse
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1Have you made any attempt at all to figure it out yourself? – mjolinor Mar 28 '14 at 20:09
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@mjolinor I edited my question with what I tried. – mkrouse Mar 28 '14 at 21:11
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And what was your result? – mjolinor Mar 28 '14 at 21:26
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@mjolinor It returns nothing. – mkrouse Mar 28 '14 at 21:30
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Sounds right. -eq means "is equal to", IOW an exact match. "*OU=Testing*" is not a valid distinguished name, so it's not going to find one with that name. – mjolinor Mar 28 '14 at 21:33
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What you are looking for (and probably could have found on your own if you had done a simple get-help get-adcomputer -detailed) is the -SeachBase option for that command. Since you only want one specific OU you may want to use the -SearchScope option as well.
Get-ADComputer -searchbase "OU=Testing,CN=Some,CN=Domain,CN=Com" -SearchScope 0 -Filter *
Obviously you will need to change the path of the SearchBase to suite your needs.
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For me, using PowerShell v4, the `-filter` option is still required. So `Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=Testing,DC=contoso,DC=com" -Filter *` should work. – Signal15 Nov 19 '18 at 21:20
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1@Signal15 You are quite right, this was written years ago, and evidently I missed that when I wrote the answer. I'll update it to include that, thanks for catching it! – TheMadTechnician Nov 19 '18 at 22:34