Scenario: If you want to list the mobile devices attached to an AD user and want to do it within the AD toolset, run the following get-ADObject command.
PowerShell Snippit:
$name = “*steve*”
#To view the Devices:
$AD_EAS = Get-AdObject -filter {ObjectClass -like ‘msExchActiveSyncDevice’} | Where-object {$_.DistinguishedName -like $($name)}
$AD_EAS_Container = Get-ADObject -filter { ObjectClass -like ‘msExchActiveSyncDevices’} | Where-Object {$_.DistinguishedName -like $($name)}
Scenario: You have collected information into a variable, and you want to run different formatting commands against that variable to performs tasks such as Sorting, Grouping, Selecting, Ect.
Don’t forget the Pipe! $final | Sort name
Example of the command you ran:
$final = get-mailboximportrequest -batchname ‘502’
#To display all properties:
$final | FL #List Style
$final | Select * #Table or List Style
$final | FT # Table Style
#Sorting based on a property:
$final | Sort Identity #Ascending Order
$final | Sort Identity -Descending #Descending Order
$final | Sort -unique # Sorts Unique Values
#Grouping based on a property
$final | Group RequestQueue #Provides a Count of number of objects in array based on the value of the RequestQueue. $final | Group Request Queue | Sort Count #Same as command above by sorts by the count of the value of the Request Queue
# Where statements: Filter your variable based on a Property Value with
$final | Where Status -ne Completed $final | Where {$_.Status -ne "Completed"} $final | Where Status -like "*Failed*" $final | Where WhenCreated -gt "5/3/2016 2:00:00 PM" #common conditions: -eq equals -ne not equals -gt greater than -ge greater than or equal -lt less than -le less than or equal -like Contains -notlike Does not contain
#Rename a Property
$final | Select Identity, @{Name="Database";Expression={$_.RequestQueue} #this will display the request queue as the headername of Database.
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