Convert System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult to a PSObject

The ADSI accelerator is fast, and built into PowerShell, unlike the Active Directory Module.  When use it, or the ADSISearcher, you have results which look like this [Image from previous Microsoft URL]:

Getting the properties out to a file can be tricky.  I wrote two little functions to make this easier:

Function ConvertTo-PSObjectFromDirectorySearchResult($oDS){
    $outval = New-Object -TypeName PsObject
    foreach ($DC in $oDS){
        foreach ($strProperty in $oDS.PropertiesLoaded){   
        $val = $DC.Properties[$strProperty]
        if ($val.GetTypeCode() -eq 'byte'){
            $val = ByteToString ($val)
        }Else{
            $val = [string]($val).trim()
        }
    
        Add-Member -InputObject $outval -MemberType NoteProperty `
            -Name $strProperty -Value $val -Force
        }
   $outval
    }

}

Function ByteToString($v){
    $ADPropVal=''
    #Delim character is used to join string of bytes
    $delim=";"
    if ($v.count -eq 1) {$v.tostring()
    }Else{
    For ($i = 0; $i -le $v.count-1; $i++) {
        if ($v.item($i)) {
            $ADPropVal +=$v.item($i).ToString()+$delim
            }
        }    
        }
    #Cleanup to remove trailing delimter
    $adpropval.TrimEnd($delim)
}

Get-AllDNSServersInForest.ps1, demonstrates how to use these functions.  It uses the ADSI accelerator to create the ADSI Searcher, then  sends a list of all DNS servers in the forest to Out-Gridview, by using the query “(servicePrincipalName=DNS*)”