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

That command does nothing when i execute it in ISE or in core powershell it gives me the exact command back, but no results.

Answer 3

Ian Xue, this worked although it returns an error that it cannot find a computer, it would be more decent that, if there is a computer in the computers.txt that does not excist anymore that the script is running thru or maybe thats the case, but this works!

Thanks all!

Answer 4

i have written this script to disable the Computer object even if there in any OU

$csv = import-csv c:\temp\test.csv -Header computer
$Failures = @()
$Success = @()
Foreach ($computer in $csv.computer) {
    try { 
        $Disabled = Set-ADComputer -Identity $(($computer -replace '\s.*')).trim()  -Enabled $false -PassThru
        if ($Disabled) {
            $Success += $computer
        }
    }
    catch {
        $Failures += $computer
    }
}