How go generate a pipeline from a script?

Hello,

I've been trying to generate a list of AD accounts from a script and export
that to a pipeline so I can create a set of script-lets to manage data from
AD. I haven't been able to figure out how to take the list of accounts
generated from the script and push them out to the pipleline to I can pipe
them into another script.

Here's the code from my test script. Anyone have any ideas how move the
data to the pipe line?

Thanks,
Bob


# Connect to AD
$strNewco = "LDAP://DC=newco;DC=local"
$objNewco = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $strNewco

# Create a selector for AD
$objSelect = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$objSelect.SearchRoot = $objNewco

# Collect all the matching objects
$objHosts = $objSelect.findall() |
Where-Object {$_.properties.objectcategory -match "CN=Person"}

I think the issue is that your searcher object is failing. You should use a filter for the searcher object. It will be more efficient than getting all objects and then piping to Where. Here's an example:

$searcher=New-object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$searcher.SearchRoot="LDAP://OU=Testing,DC=jdhitsolutions,DC=local"
$searcher.Filter="(&(objectcategory=person)(objectclass=user))"
$users=$searcher.FindAll()
#display the number of users
Write-Host "There are "$users.count"users in this domain."
#display each user's distinguishedname
foreach ($user in $users) {
Write-Host $user.properties.distinguishedname
write-host $user.Properties.description
}