Bulk hostname movement to desired OU

Question

I am having a script for moving hostnames to particular OU.

gc .\list.txt |ForEach-Object { Get-ADComputer $_ | move-adobject -targetpath "" }

In above script actually am having 150 hostnames and needs to move different different ou. How we can do that.

example.

masuadfl01  --   move to  masu/branches/laptops
masufgd002  --   move to  masu/branches/desktops
abdufghd001  --  move to  abdu/branches/desktops

Like above everything should move automatically correct OU. How we can create a script like that.

If it is desktop last before digit D will be there. For laptop L will be.

Answer 1

A bit more overhead here, but you can use regex for this

First, set the regex

# will match a d,l,D or L character before the digit
[regex]$regex = "[dlDL](?=\d)"

Then you can loop through your list of hostnames

Get-Content -Path .\list.txt | ForEach-Object {
    
    # check if the hostname matches the regex
    $match = $regex.Match($_)
    
    # get the desired OU, first 4 characters
    $desiredOU = $_.Substring(0,4)

    If($match.Success){
        # if client is L -> move to laptops
        If($match.Value.ToUpper() -eq "L"){
            Write-Host "$_ is a laptop" -ForegroundColor Green
            Get-ADComputer $_ | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=laptops,OU=branches,OU=$desiredOU,DC=Contoso,DC=com"
        # if client is D -> move to desktops
        }Elseif($match.Value.ToUpper() -eq "D"){
            Write-Host "$_ is a desktop" -ForegroundColor Green
            Get-ADComputer $_ | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=desktops,OU=branches,OU=$desiredOU,DC=Contoso,DC=com"
        }Else{
            Write-Host "$_ not a laptop nor desktop" -ForegroundColor Red
        }
    }Else{
        Write-Host "$_ not a laptop nor desktop" -ForegroundColor Red
    }
}