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CWL
Asked: 2012-08-18 10:46:13 +0800 CST

Powershell and DirectorySearch exclude OU

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I have a question on how to exclude a specific OU when running this PS statement. This gives me all the servers in the Domain. I like to excluded the OU called

OU=RETIRED,OU=SERVER,DC=ABCCORP,dc-com

Tried some filtering but no luck.

$ObjFilter = "(operatingsystem=*SERVER*)" 
$objSearch = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher 
$objSearch.PageSize = 15000 
$objSearch.Filter = $ObjFilter 
$objSearch.SearchRoot = "LDAP://dc=ABCCORP,dc=com"
$AllObj = $objSearch.FindAll() | Select-Object @{n='Name';e={$_.properties['name']}}
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can pipe the search result to Where-Object and filter based on the LDAP Path.

    change:

    $AllObj = $objSearch.FindAll() | Select-Object @{n='Name';e={$_.properties['name']}}

    to:

    $AllObj = $objSearch.FindAll() | Where {-not ($_.Path -match 'OU=RETIRED,OU=SERVER,DC=ABCCORP,dc=com')} | Select-Object @{n='Name';e={$_.properties['name']}}
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