Parent Child Tree with powershell

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1

Hi all,

i try to recursivly read groups from AD and want to display the output like a tree.
therefore i created an object like this:

ID : 15
ParentID : 7
AnzeigeName : DevAdmin
SamAccountName : DevAdmin
DistinguishedName : CN=DevAdmin,OU=Work,DC=forest1,DC=net
FromGroup : CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=forest1,DC=net
objectClass : user
Level : 2

ID : 7
ParentID : 0
AnzeigeName : Domain Admins
SamAccountName : Domain Admins
DistinguishedName : CN=Domain Admins,CN=Users,DC=forest1,DC=net
FromGroup : CN=DLTest,CN=Users,DC=forest1,DC=net
objectClass : group
Level : 1

How can i get all the objects sorted that all objects with ParrentID -eq X are displayed unter objects with ID -eq X??
Any idea?

2

Just pipe the results to Group-Object

$groupedData = $yourData | Group-Object ParentID

Then, you will have all of your IDs in the “Name” column and the matches in the “Group” column. Manipulate that how you see fit.

3

Okay this worked so far i have a the parrentIDs and their childs.
How can this help me to build a tree structure?
So far I have one parent and one Child?

4

To start out, we want to group the parent and the child objects together:

$tree = @()

foreach ($object in $groupedData) {
    $data = New-Object psobject
    $data | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Parent" -Value $(($yourData | where {$_.ID -eq $($object.Name)}))
    $data | Add-Member -Type NoteProperty -Name "Child" -Value $($object.group)

    $tree += $data
    }

At this point, $tree has the “Parent” value and each of the “Child” values. So it’s purely cosmetic at this point.

Look here for inspiration if you are wanting to create a tree-map.
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Show-Tree/1.0.0/Content/Show-Tree.ps1

Otherwise, you can pipe $tree to something like ConvertTo-HTML, ConvertTo-JSON or ConvertTo-XML. XML or JSON would probably give you the closest to a tree without all of the additional coding.