Accessing Sharepoint UserProfile Properties with Powershell script - sharepoint

Question

The following script spits out all UserProfile properties for users on Sharepoint 2007:
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles")
# Function: Get-UserProfiles
# Description: return a UserProfileManager object containing all user profiles
# Parameters: SSPName SSPName
#
Function global:Get-UserProfiles($SSPName)
{
$ServerContext = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($SSPName);
$UPManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ServerContext);
return $UPManager.GetEnumerator();
}
$profiles = Get-UserProfiles("SharedServices");
$profiles | ForEach-Object { $_.GetEnumerator();}
However, what I want to do is be able to return a table, or csv file of specific values in the profile, e.g. Username, WorkEmail, WorkPhone. I have tried piping the output to |ft Username, WorkEmail, Workphone and | select Username, WorkEmail, WorkPhone but this just returns blanks.
I feel like I am so close. I don't want to replace the $_.GetEnumerator() call with lots of $_.Item("property") calls and it doesn't feel like I should have to. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I've further developed the code so that it now accepts a comma delimited list of properties and writes them to a delimited file.
# Outputs a delimited file with specified user profile properties for each user in Sharepoint
# Create array of desired properties
$arProperties = 'UserName','FirstName','LastName','Title','WorkEmail','WorkPhone','Manager','AlternateContact','RoleDescription','PictureURL';
# Specify output file
$outfile = 'UserProfiles.csv';
#Specify delimiter character (i.e. not one that might appear in your user profile data)
$delim = '^';
# Specify Shared Service Provider that contains the user profiles.
$SSP = "SharedServices";
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles")
# Function: Get-UserProfiles
# Description: return a UserProfileManager object containing all user profiles
# Parameters: SSPName SSPName
#
Function global:Get-UserProfiles($SSPName)
{
$ServerContext = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($SSPName);
$UPManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ServerContext);
return $UPManager.GetEnumerator();
}
$profiles = Get-UserProfiles($SSP);
#Initialise Output file with headings
$header = [string]::join($delim,$arProperties);
Write-Output $header | Out-File $outfile
#Output the specified properties for each
$profiles | ForEach-Object {
foreach($p in $arProperties){
# Get the property name and add it to a new array, which will be used to construct the result string
$arProfileProps += $_.Item($p);
}
$results = [string]::join($delim,$arProfileProps);
# Get rid of any newlines that may be in there.
$CleanResults = $results.Replace("`n",'');
Write-Output $CleanResults
Remove-Variable -Name arProfileProps
} | Out-File -Append $outfile
This gets me a bit closer. I'd still really like a script that iterates through all the profile properties and puts them into a CSV or XML file more gracefully. This will do for now.