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Identify an AD object from the SID

Posted on September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 by Alan

Convert-SidToADObject will take an AD SID and return an object containing the object’s name, SamAccountName, Description, type and distinguished name. function Convert-SidToADObject($sid) { $u = [adsi](“LDAP://<SID=” + $sid + “>”) if ($u.SamAccountName) { [psCustomObject]@{ Name = $u.Name.value SamAccountName = $u.samAccountName.value Description = $u.description.value Type = $u.objectclass.Value[1] DistinguishedName = $u.distinguishedName.value } } Else { “Lookup Failed”…

Convert System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult to a PSObject

Posted on December 25, 2016December 25, 2021 by Alan

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 =…

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