Copy AD User Object GUID to Clipboard

Question

My PowerShell skills are not very strong so I am struggling with something that I suspect is fairly straight-forward. I have the following simple code:

 $User = Read-Host "Enter the User ID"

 Get-ADUser -Identity $User | Select ObjectGUID | Set-Clipboard

This almost does what I want. The below line is what I am getting for output (I have sanitized the GUID out of an abundance of caution, but the code does pull the actual GUID):

 @{ObjectGUID=##a###a#-a#aa-##aa-#aaa-###aaa#a####}

What I would really like is to get rid of everything up to and including the "=" and the trailing "}" bracket, so that only the actual GUID is copied to the clipboard.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for any help that you can offer!

--Tom

Answer 1

Hi @Thomas M ,

could you please test this (here it works):

 $User = Read-Host "Enter the User ID"  
 (Get-ADUser -Identity $User).ObjectGUID | Set-Clipboard  

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi,

You could just add the "-ExpandProperty" switch to the "select" cmdlet.

Get-ADUser -Identity $User | Select -ExpandProperty ObjectGUID | Set-Clipboard  

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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