Question

So I would think that this would be a simple thing to do with powershell, but I can’t seem to figure out how to make my array output as columns. Below is my script.

$Table = @()

$Employees = Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=Emplyoees,DC=mydomain,DC=com" -Filter * -Properties * | ?{$_.telephoneNumber -ne $Null}

ForEach($User in $Employees){$Table += @($User.Name,$user.telephoneNumber)}

($Table)

The output looks similar to:

User1
PhoneNumber1
User2
PhoneNumber2

What I would like it to look like is:

Name        PhoneNumber
User1        PhoneNumber1
User2        PhoneNumber2

Any help would be amazing

Answer 1

Try this:

ForEach($User in $Employees){$Table += ,@($User.Name,$user.telephoneNumber)} #NOTE THE COMMA HERE
$table | % { $_ -join '`t' } # the `t is a tab, but you can use whatever you want

Edit after comment:

if is just needed a layout you can try:

 $table | % {  "{0,-20}{1,20}" -f $_[0],$_[1]  } #the 2nd value in {} is the relative cursor position the sign left o right alignment

but why not use just $Employees variable to show the result:

$Employees = Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=Emplyoees,DC=mydomain,DC=com" -Filter * -Properties * | 
?{$_.telephoneNumber -ne $Null} | select name, telephonenumber | ft