OK, all I wanted to do was change the properties of all users in an Organizational Unit. I find I use my vbscripting to do this all the time. I began to do this with powershell. As I couldn’t make it work, it started to become an obsession. To prevent the same thing from happening to you, here it is:

 

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$vDom = ",dc=domain,dc=com"
$vOU = "ou=some OU"
$tel ="518-111-7777"
$vOUPath = $vOU + $vDom
$profilePath = "\\servername\share"

$strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=User))"

$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry

$objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$objSearcher.SearchRoot = "LDAP://$vOUpath"
$objSearcher.PageSize = 1000
$objSearcher.Filter = $strFilter
$objSearcher.SearchScope = "onelevel"

$colProplist = "name"
foreach ($i in $colPropList){$objSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add($i)}

$colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll()

foreach ($objResult in $colResults)
    {$objItem = $objResult.Properties; $objItem.name
    $n = $objItem.name
 $user=[ADSI]"LDAP://localhost:389/cn=$n,$vOUPath"
 $user.put("telephoneNumber", "$tel")
 $user.Put("profilePath", "$profilePath")
 $user.Put("mail", "$n@mydomain.com")
 $user.SetInfo()
}