Update AD User from CSV

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1

I have to update all User in my AD with certain values from a csv.

So I wrote a little script, which should do the job for me.

$WorkObjects =Import-Csv -Encoding UTF8 -Path C:\Temp\signatur.csv -Delimiter ";"

$WorkObjects.Count


foreach ($WorkObject in $WorkObjects)


{


$user=$WorkObject.displayName


$dep=$WorkObject.department


$tit=$WorkObject.title


$l=$WorkObject.l


$street=$WorkObject.StreetAddress


$st=$WorkObject.st


Write-host “$user”


Get-ADUser-Filter ‘DisplayName -like “$user”’|Set-ADUser-Title “$tit”-l “$l”-StreetAddress “$street”-State “$st”-Department “$dep”


write-host “Press Enter”


$x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(“NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown”)


}

I testet it with:

Write-Host "Get-ADUser" "-Filter" "DisplayName" "-like" $user "| Set-ADUser" "-department" $dep "-title" $tit "-l" $l "-StreetAddress" $street "-State" $st
I got all the right values from my csv. And when I try to write the "Get-ADUser | Set-ADUser" manually everything works like it should. Does anybody see, what am I missing here?
Thank you so much!
2

You state “everything works like it should”. I take it that it is not working. Do you get an error?
I would look at creating a hashtable and using it to make the changes.

Checkout https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/addsadministration/set-aduser?view=win10-ps

3

The are many articles and pre-built script that you can use as is or tweak as needed for your use case. No reason to start from scratch, unless of course this is a homework assignment or general edification effort. Even in the latter case, learning from others work is paramount for clarity of direction, even if you later come up with a better option / solution.

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If all your values are already in the file, then just use those directly. No real need for the Get-ADUser.
It could as simple as doing something link this (splatting being used just for better readability)…

$Users = Import-CSV c:\script\userattributes.csv

foreach ($User in $Users)
{
    $ADUserParams = @{
        displayName   = $User.displayname
        department    = $User.department
        title         = $User.title
        l             = $User.l
        StreetAddress = $User.streetaddress
        st            = $User.st
    }
    Set-ADUser @ADUserParams
}
4

@W4gi28, Your filter wont work as you have wrapped them in single quotes. When using quotes,variable expansion works only inside double quotes.

#current code
Get-ADUser -Filter 'DisplayName -like "$user"'

#correct it like below
Get-ADUser -Filter "DisplayName -like '$user'"

And see more here at

5

Thank you all very much for your help!

@kvprasoon Thank you for the hint, I did the changes according to you.

That is the code which was working for me now.

$WorkObjects =Import-Csv -Encoding UTF8 -Path C:\Temp\signatur.csv -Delimiter ";"

$WorkObjects.Count


foreach ($WorkObject in $WorkObjects)


{


$user=$WorkObject.displayName

$dep=$WorkObject.department

$tit=$WorkObject.title

$l=$WorkObject.l

$street=$WorkObject.StreetAddress

$st=$WorkObject.st


Write-host “$user”


Get-ADUser-Filter “DisplayName -like ‘$user’”|Set-ADUser -Replace@{title=“$tit”;l=“$l”;streetAddress=“$street”;department=“$dep”;st=“$st”}


write-host"Press Enter"

$x=$host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
}