Summary: Dr. Scripto shows our Admin friend how to determine which groups a computer is a member of.
Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. If you missed it, be sure to watch Sean’s video: Just Script It! Also to catch up with our story, read:
- ‘Twas the Night of Before Scripting: Part 1
- ‘Twas the Night of Before Scripting: Part 2
- ‘Twas the Night of Before Scripting: Part 3
Take it away, Sean…
When we last were within our reading, the good Dr. Scripto showed our former non-scripter how to find cmdlets within a module—and furthermore, how to obtain the necessary Help for basic use. The weight of the pressure had begun to ease off our happy admin. He actually foresaw being home with his family for the holidays.
But now, let the rhyming begin anew!
When last we did see
Our new Admin guy,
He was feeling his scripting
Would be very fly.
He learned how to find
Cmdlets with ease.
These PowerShell things
Just working with ease.
“So my good friend,”
Said Scripto the Doc,
“What’s the next thing here,
Upon our time clock?”
The Admin looked,
And saw on his task list,
A nasty wee thing
He almost had missed.
He had to migrate
Some accounts for PC
Memberships of groups
That needed to be.
Carried over from an
Old system now,
If he didn’t, the boss
Just might have a cow.
But he realized and thought
An answer quite quick,
A solution presented
Itself in a tic!
“Why, all of the names
For computers to be
Are sitting right here
In computer.csv.
I wonder if can use
The feature from last
Import-CSV,
From the script from the past.”
The good doctor nodded
And said, “Give it a try.
You’ve nothing to lose,
And I’ll bet you’ll get by.
But even more, I suspect
If you try this and get done,
You’ll be able to access
It, and get yourself done.”
The Admin sat down
And examined his stuff,
The data from old
Computers and fluff.
OLDNAME NEWNAME
EOT-DABOSS STATION001
EOT-PICKLE STATION002
EOT-SURFACE STATION003
EOT-99 STATION004
EOT-JERRY STATION005
$list=IMPORT-CSV computers.csv
“Now my next challenge
With this imported list
Is to migrate groups,
Make sure none are missed.”
He wondered if a
Cmdlet was there,
To show group memberships,
All without care.
GET-COMMAND –module ActiveDirectory *group*
He look and blinked
At the answers outlaid,
Wondering if they would
Solve and provide aid.
He tried the one out,
It seemed obvious to he,
GET-ADGROUPMember,
It would probably be.
GET-ADGroupmember MicrosoftWord
He smiled at the result,
It seemed quite a tease,
“But I need to know
The groups for PCs.”
“I think I can show you
Just what you need,
You need the property
Of the PC indeed.”
Dr. Scripto pulled up
The info at hand,
Of a computer within
The old AD land.
GET-ADComputer EOT-SURFACE –properties memberof
“See how MemberOf
From the object AD,
Contains the groups
Joined by PC?
To get this list out
And useful to you,
We can simply extract it,
So easy to do.”
(GET-ADComputer EOT-SURFACE –properties memberof).memberof
The Admin blinked and saw
Victory in sight,
“Perhaps I’ll be done with
All this tonight!”
Pop in tomorrow for more silly holiday rhymes and a little more Windows PowerShell goodness!
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Sean Kearney, Honorary Scripting Guy and Windows PowerShell MVP