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Wildcards in Get-QADuser

How can I search for user using quest cmdlets (Get-QADUser) for accounts containing an "_" (underscore) followed by any 3 characters for eg.

User01_ad1, User55_a2d, User116_arr, User9999_1ad

I tried following but it does seem to work:

Get-QADUser -LdapFilter '(samaccountname=*_???)'

does get-qaduser does not recognize "?" as wildcard?

Solution

  • Single character wildcard is not available (MSDN). You can get accounts with _ using Get-QADUser and fine-tune the results with a -match regex-pattern using Where-Object.

    Ex getting all accounts that end with underscore and three chars:

    Get-QADUser -SamAccountName "*_*" | Where-Object { $_.SamAccountName -match '_\w{3}$' }