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Asked: 2026-05-31T07:56:17+00:00

I’m trying to write a simple powershell script. Get-ADuser -Filter {GivenName -eq $GivenName $hateList}

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I’m trying to write a simple powershell script.

Get-ADuser -Filter {GivenName -eq $GivenName $hateList} -SearchBase $Container -Properties displayName,telephoneNumber,department|ForEach-Object {"FullName`t: $($_.displayName)`r`nPhone`t`t: $($_.telephoneNumber)`r`nDepartment`t: $($_.department)`r`n"}

The error what I got:
Get-ADUser : Error parsing query: ‘GivenName -eq $GivenName $hateList’ Error Message: ‘syntax error’ at position: ’26’.

So the problem is that the variables aren’t substituted with their values. What do I do wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You Filter parameter is not right. If you want to have GivenName be equal to $GivenName you should do it like this:

    {GivenName -eq $GivenName}

    If you want it to be equal to $GivenName or $hateList, whatever it is, you should try something like:

    {(GivenName -eq $GivenName) -or (GivenName -eq $hateList)}

    Check this link for more filter:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617241.aspx

    You can first get list of users with filter like this:

    {GivenName -eq $GivenName}

    And the do some post processing:

    $users | Where-Object { $hateList -notcontains  $_.cn }
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