Simple question about get-ADuser and SearchBase

[Mike Leone]

OK, I know this is simple, and I'm just not seeing it. I'm trying to get a user info, and I want to limit the search to a specific OU and it's sub-OUs. (the user may exist in another OU, but I only need to work on the account if it's within this specific OU structure).

So the user's SamAccountName is "publicjq". And I wanna know if it's located in the OU "Terminated" or a sub-OU there.

Get-ADUser -Identity publicjq -SearchBase "OU=Terminated,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx" -SearchScope 2

And I keep getting 

Get-ADUser : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-ADUser -Identity publicjq -SearchBase "OU=Terminated,DC=xxx,DC=xxx ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmbiguousParameterSet,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser

I know that I can determine the user OU by finding the user and doing

$userOU = ($user.DistinguishedName -split ",",2)[1]

But why is my actual Get-ADUser search itself failing? From everything I've looked at, the format of the Get-ADUser command I am using should work. So why doesn't it? I mean, I would expect to get a response of  "Cannot find an object with that identity". That would make sense, as that user actually isn't in that OU. But not the error I am getting ...

Thanks for any insight.

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[Solodow, Damien]

So this error: “Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters” is a fancy way of saying “you used mutually exclusive parameters”

 

You can use either Identity OR SearchBase/SearchScope but not both in the same command.

For what you’re trying to do, I’d use SearchBase, SearchScope and Filter:

Get-aduser -SearchBase "OU=Terminated,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=xxx" -SearchScope 2 -filter “samaccountname -eq ‘publicjq’”

 

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[Mike Leone]

OK, that did work. I would have sworn I had tried that ... Thanks!

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