powershell script to disable and move computers to other ou

Question

I want to disable a bunch of computers and move them to another OU in AD thru Powershell. Cannot get to work though, have tried several scripts but it does not work: cannot find object beneath dc=xxx,dc=xxx

However when i do a move adcomputer in powershell directly it does work, so there is something wrong with the get-content when i want to get the input from a file, can someone tell me what is wrong in the script?

Disable computeraccounts via een txt file

$Pclist = Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt # Specify the path to the computers list.
Foreach($pc in $Pclist)
{
Disable-ADAccount -Identity "$pc."
Get-ADComputer -Identity "$pc" | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=1,OU=2,OU=3,DC=domain,DC=name"
}

In computers.txt there are the computers:

computer1

computer2

computer3

When i do this it works:

get-adcomputer computername | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=1,OU=2,OU=3,DC=domain,DC=name"

This is the error when launching the script:

Disable-ADAccount : Kan geen object met id computer1 vinden onder DC=domain,DC=name.
At line:4 char:1

• Disable-ADAccount -Identity "$pc"
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (computer1 :ADAccount) [Disable-ADAccount], ADIdentityNotFoundException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryCmdlet:Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.DisableADAccount

Get-ADComputer : Kan geen object met id computer1 vinden onder DC=domain,DC=name.
At line:5 char:1

• Get-ADComputer -Identity "$pc" | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=1OU ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (computer1 :ADComputer) [Get-ADComputer], ADIdentityNotFoundException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryCmdlet:Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADComputer

Answer 1

Hi,

See if this works for you. Tested in Windows Server 2016.

$pclist = Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt   
$targetOU = "OU=1,OU=2,OU=3,DC=domain,DC=name"  
foreach($pc in $pclist){  
    if ($pc.Trim()) {  
        Get-ADComputer $pc.Trim() | Disable-ADAccount -PassThru | Move-ADObject -TargetPath $targetOU  
    }  
}  

Best Regards，
Ian Xue

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Answer 2

What happens if you try this?

$Pclist = Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt # Specify the path to the computers list.
Foreach($pc in $Pclist)
    {
    Get-ADComputer -Identity "$pc" -SearchScope Subtree | Disable-ADAccount
    Get-ADComputer -Identity "$pc" -SearchScope Subtree | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=1,OU=2,OU=3,DC=domain,DC=name"
    }

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 3

Get-ADComputer : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.
At line:5 char:6

• Get-ADComputer -Identity "$pc" -SearchScope Subtree | Move-ADObj ...
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-ADComputer], ParameterBindingException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameterSet,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADComputer

Answer 4

Here we go. This is tested and it's working here:

$DeletedCompOU = "OU=DisabledComputers,DC=whatever,DC=local"

$Pclist = Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt # Specify the path to the computers list.
 Foreach($pc in $Pclist)
     {
     $CompDN = (Get-ADComputer -Filter 'Name -eq $pc' -SearchScope Subtree).DistinguishedName
     Disable-ADAccount $CompDN
     Move-ADObject $CompDN -TargetPath $DeletedCompOU
     }

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(If the reply was helpful please don't forget to upvote and/or accept as answer, thank you)

Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 5

Instead of setting a loop or variable, can you please try to run below command and see if it works.

Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt | Get-ADComputer | Set-ADComputer -Enabled $false

Get-Content C:\scripts\Computers.txt | Get-ADComputer | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=1,OU=2,OU=3,DC=domain,DC=name"