Comments on: How to find a needle in the Array stack

By: Jesse Hamrick

Jesse Hamrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:09:53 +0000

Dean,
I am assuming your list of usernames are the SAM account name of the user and that the list is a text file with each username entered on their own line, separated by a carriage return.
CODE:
# ==================================================================
$Users = Get-Content “C:\NameOfFile.txt”

$Search = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher([ADSI]“”)

foreach($User in $users){
$Search.Filter=”(&(objectClass=User)(sAMAccountName=$User))”
$objUsers = $Search.FindAll()
$objUsers
}
# ===================================================================

That will return the users who are in AD.

Hope that helps,

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:14:23 +0000

I am wondering if you have a script that that takes a list of usernames and determines if those usernames are still in AD. and returns a list of just the names that are still in AD?

any help would be appreciated.

By: John

John — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:55 +0000

I have to verify group sync against control files on a scheduled basis for certain process here and this is what i do:

get the current email addresses from the members of my DL and out put the results to a file: Current.txt

Get-DistributionGroupMember dl-xxxxx | get-mailbox | select primarysmtpaddress >> c:\work\current.txt

Then compare that output file to my Control file: Address.txt

diff $(get-content C:\work\Address.txt) $(get-content C:\work\current.txt)

The format of the address must match, it will detect spaces as a difference if there are trailing spaces after the address.

diff – as you can see does compare the array contents.
I know you can compare the output of the first command to the input file.. I just haven’t spent the time trying to isolate the key from the value of the array of hashes with a one liner.