Question

I have a list of users(.txt):

user1
user2
user3
user4

That I would like to use as a filter on a cmdlet (get-qaduser). I would like to ignore the users in the list.

I try

$filter = Get-Content users.txt | Foreach-Object { " AND Name!='{0}'" -f $_}

but this starts my filter with AND and I have a linebreak between each user.
How would I do this nicely?

Sune:)

Answer 1

Give this a try:

$filter = $filter = Get-Content users.txt | Foreach-Object { "(!samaccountname=$_)" }
$filter = "({0})" -f (-join $filter)
Get-QADUser SizeLimit 0 -LdapFilter $filter

The filter would look like:

((!samaccountname=user1)(!samaccountname=user2)...)