Not receiving the correct output-CodePudding

I am new to PowerShell and I am having the following problem.

When typing the following command for asked value of CanonicalNameOfObject I am receiving Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADPropertyValueCollection. I know that this problem is because that property isn't in a format that is understood by PowerSell in its raw format.

Can somebody help me to put this right? In general I want to have all computers in the company for a specific branch (which is only a separated folder).

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Thank you!

Kind regards Kris

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | 
  Select-Object Name,CanonicalNameOfObject,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemVersion,ipv4Address | 
  Export-CSV c:\ADcomputerslist.csv -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8

CodePudding user response：

If you change the Attributes name from "CanonicalNameOfObject" to just "CanonicalName" you will receive the CN in string format.

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Select-Object CanonicalName

CodePudding user response：

A "property value collection" is just that, a collection. You get that a lot in AD, every time an attribute takes more than one value (that is to say "most of the time").

Indexing is required even for singular items, eg. $AdUser.proxyAddresses[0]; if you can't be certain there is just the one value then you'll need to iterate.

Note that you can check .PropertyNames for presence of the attribute you want - which is not necessarily a given - and that you can also use $UserObject[$propertyName] syntax to access it.