How can I split AD information in Powershell into a excel document? - excel

Question

I am a Powershell starter. I have been trying to create a script, that makes an Excel file with some AD information including the DistinguishedName. My script looks like this:
$dn = Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Users,OU=Ch01,OU=EU,DC=corp,DC=ads" | select DistinguishedName,SamAccountName,name |export-csv C:\temp\test1.csv -Delimiter ";"
An example of what I get (Note: | means new cell in Excel):
CN=Testuser\, Verfluecht,OU=Users,OU=Ch01,OU=EU,DC=corp,DC=ads | vtestuser | Testuser, Verfluecht
But in order to group the paths in excel, I need it without the CN (CN=Testuser\, Verfluecht,)
So that it would look like this:
OU=Users,OU=Ch01,OU=EU,DC=corp,DC=ads | vtestuser | Testuser, Verfluecht
How can I do this?
I tried many things such as .substring and replace, but I could not get it done.

Answer 1

Using this link and a calculated property, it should just drop the first part of the distinguishedname and be left with the parts you need.
Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "OU=Users,OU=Ch01,OU=EU,DC=corp,DC=ads" |
Select-Object #{Name="DistinguishedName";Expression={$_.distinguishedname | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace '^.+?(?<!\\),',''}}},samaccountname,name |
Export-Csv C:\temp\test1.csv -Delimiter ";"
On my test environment, I get the output below (without piping it to Export-Csv).
Get-ADUser -Filter * | Select-Object #{Name="DistinguishedName";Expression={$_.distinguishedname | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace '^.+?(?<!\\),',''}}},samaccountname,name
DistinguishedName samaccountname name
----------------- -------------- ----
CN=Users,DC=timhaintz,DC=com Administrator Administrator
CN=Users,DC=timhaintz,DC=com Guest Guest
CN=Users,DC=timhaintz,DC=com DefaultAccount DefaultAccount
CN=Users,DC=timhaintz,DC=com krbtgt krbtgt
Thanks, Tim.