How to return just the number value of a user's attribute in AD

Question

At my hospital I am trying to write a script to add security when unlocking a user's account. when running this code,

import-module ActiveDirectory
$user = Read-Host -prompt 'User name of Person locked out'
$id = get-aduser $user -properties '*'| select -property employeeNumber

$id outputs as "@{employeeNumber=someNumber}"

is there any way to set the $id to just output 'someNumber'? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can utilize -ExpandProperty 'employeeNumber' on the Select-Object cmdlet.

Alternatively:

$id = (Get-ADUser $user -Properties '*').employeeNumber