At some point, I had a desire to list all the computer accounts for any server OS in Active Directory. I am pretty sure that I did a search and found the script below, but I don’t remember where, so whoever wrote it doesn’t get credit this time…
$strCategory = “computer”
$strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*”$objDomain = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
$objSearcher = New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$objSearcher.SearchRoot = $objDomain$objSearcher.Filter = (“OperatingSystem=$strOperatingSystem”)
$colProplist = “name”
foreach ($i in $colPropList){$objSearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add($i)}$colResults = $objSearcher.FindAll()
Write-Host $colResults.count
foreach ($objResult in $colResults)
{
$objComputer = $objResult.Properties;
$objComputer.name
}
If you change the $strOperatingSystem = “Windows*Server*” to something like $strOperatingSystem = “Windows*” it will return all computer accounts that have “Windows” in the Name field on the Operating System tab of the properties of the AD object:
