Bulk Move Users and Computers in Active Directory with PowerShell
Learn how to bulk move users and computer in Active Directory with Powershell.
You can use the get-aduser and get-adcomputer PowerShell commands to find accounts then pipe them to the move-adobject command.
Command and scripts are below:
Example 1: Move single user
Get-ADUser -Identity username | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=Accounting,OU=ADPRO Users,DC=ad,DC=activedirectorypro,DC=com"
Example 2: Move all users from one OU to another OU
Get-ADUser -filter * -SearchBase "OU=Accounting,OU=ADPRO Users,DC=ad,DC=activedirectorypro,DC=com" | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=Accounting-2,OU=ADPRO Users,DC=ad,DC=activedirectorypro,DC=com"
Example 3: Filter for specific users and move to an OU
In this example I'm finding all users that have "Marketing" set for the department field
get-aduser -filter {department -eq 'Marketing'} | move-adobject -targetpath "OU=Marketing-2,OU=ADPRO Users,DC=ad,DC=activedirectorypro,DC=com"
Example 4: Moving users from a CSV file
Import the data from CSV file and assign it to variable
$Import_csv = Import-Csv -Path "C:\it\move_accounting.csv"
Specify target OU where the users will be moved to
$TargetOU = "OU=Accounting,OU=ADPRO Users,DC=ad,DC=activedirectorypro,DC=com"
$Import_csv | ForEach-Object {
Retrieve DN of User
$UserDN = (Get-ADUser -Identity $_.SamAccountName).distinguishedName
Write-Host "Moving Accounts....."
Move user to target OU. Remove the -WhatIf parameter after you tested.
Move-ADObject -Identity $UserDN -TargetPath $TargetOU
}
Write-Host "Completed move"
Additional Notes:
1. The move-adobject -targetpath requires the distinguishedName of the OU
2. To move computer accounts use get-adcomputer instead of get-aduser
3. The csv file needs a column header. If you change it make sure to update the script to match the column.
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