How to move OU members into other OU based on sAMaccountname or other attribute

Question

Dear friend,

We have an OU containing around 1000+ members and we will need to create sub-OU to separate them. We will create 10 sub-OUs and move them into different ones. I have an excel list containing the members' E-mail, sAMAccountName, can we do this in bulk based on their E-mail field or sAMAccountName attribute?

Many thanks in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

Hi，

You can create a script to do this. The Move-ADObject cmdlet moves an AD object to a specific container.

$sAMAccountName = "someuser"  
$ou = "OU=test,DC=contoso,DC=com"  
Get-ADUser -Identity $sAMAccountName | Move-ADObject -TargetPath $ou  

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedirectory/move-adobject

Best Regards,
Ian Xue

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