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Hello,
We have multiple users in AD who has a mobile number assigned under the Telephone tab; now we want to clear the Mobile number for all user.
Is there a PowerShell script that I can use?
Your help would be much appreciated.
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Do your users (through OutLook, presumably) have permission to modify their own properties, or is this data being added to the AD by your administration staff? If it's the users then you're going to have to repeat the process again and again until you remove their ability to modify their properties.
This should remove the information from an AD user:
Set-ADUser -Identity user_identity -Clear mobile
Yes, these data were added to the AD by our administrator. We would like to remove all user's mobile numbers. The above command needs to do one by one (it's like a manual process) which is time-consuming. Is there a way to remove all user's mobile numbers at once? Thank you
Yes, it's possible. However, if you're going to use PowerShell effectively (or any other computer language for that matter) you should be at least conversant with basics.
Start by downloading, and then reading, this free PDF. Go chapter by chapter for the first half of the book. Do the exercises. When you're familiar with the PowerShell's basics, move on to the second half of the book (it deals with using PowerShell to perform common administrative tasks:
To get every user that has a populated 'mobile' property, you'd use the Get-ADUser cmdlet and the "-Filter" parameter.
Get-ADUser -Filter "mobile -like '*'" |
ForEach-Object{
Set-ADUser -Identity $_.samaccountname -Clear mobile
}
Thank you for the pdf book. I was able to remove the mobile number from the Domain user using the code that you have provided.
If I would like to remove the home phone number for all domain users, I would just use the below command, right?
Get-ADUser -Filter “home -like ‘*’” | ForEach-Object {Set-ADUser -Identity $_.samaccountname -Clear home}
Thank you again for your instruction.
The LDAP display name for the property is homePhone, not "home".