Bulk set ManagedBy; Can’t find object in AD

[Jeff Taylor Participant Topics: 125 Replies: 270 Points: 316Rank: Contributor]

I tried some code and consulted Help for Set-ADGroup but still getting error .

$Groups = Get-Content ‘c:\temp\scripts\list.txt’
$newMgr = ‘CN=ofNewManager’

foreach ($group in $groups){
Set-ADGroup “$($group.ManagedBy)” -ManagedBy $newMgr -WhatIf
}

error:

Set-ADGroup : Cannot find an object with identity: ” under: ‘DC=my,DC=domain’.

 

[AdminOfThings45 Participant Topics: 0 Replies: 81 Points: 362Rank: Contributor]

$group.ManagedBy is not something you can reference with your code. When using Get-Content alone, you are just reading in strings. They will not have any custom properties. If it is a file with common delimiters between columns or a file with a single column, you can use Import-Csv. By default, Import-Csv expects a header to be present at the top of each column. If it is not present, you can add it with the -Header parameter.

$groups = Import-Csv c:\temp\scripts\list.txt # If you have a ManagedBy header

$groups = Import-Csv c:\temp\scripts\list.txt -Header ManagedBy # If you do not have headers

[Jeff Taylor]

AdminOfThings45 I created that csv with this format:

Group,ManagedBy

Note: all the groups have different names (format of Name); the ManagedBy is the same person in the format of a ‘DN’.

and modified the code as well to this:

$groups = Import-Csv c:\temp\scripts\list.txt

foreach ($group in $groups){
Set-ADGroup $group.group -ManagedBy $group.ManagedBy
}

…and it worked, thank you.

If I wanted to first backup the values contained I’m about to replace, I try this code:

$Localpath = ‘C:\temp\scripts\groupBackup.csv’
$groups = Import-Csv c:\temp\scripts\list.txt

foreach ($group in $groups){
Get-ADGroup $group.group -Properties ManagedBy | Select-Object Name,ManagedBy | Export-Csv -Path $LocalPath -NoTypeInformation
}

…but what I end up with is only one group in my export. If I take out the Export-csv, I see displayed in the console all of my groups and ManagedBy’s.

Finally,  How did you format your examples? I couldn’t figure out the toolbar for doing it completely, so I used Block quotes.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 4 days ago by Jeff Taylor.
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[Alex Aymonier Participant Topics: 6 Replies: 120 Points: 127Rank: Participant]

Hi Jeff,

For your Export-CSV you’ll need to add -Append as at the moment it’s looping through and each loop is overwriting the previous one. If you look at the list of groups in $groups you’re probably ending up with the last group as the final entry in the csv

[Jeff Taylor Participant Topics: 125 Replies: 270 Points: 316Rank: Contributor]

Alex,

true enough and thanks.

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