Write Get-ADUser query result to table using Powershell

Question

I want to pull a list of users from a table, lookup their email using Get-ADUser and write the result back to a SQL table. So far I can save the resultset to a csv. file, but how to write to a table instead.

$connString = "Server = 'sql1'; Database = 'test'; Integrated Security = True"
$QueryText = 'SELECT [ADUser] FROM [test].[dbo].[Users]'
$SqlConnection = new-object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
$SqlConnection.ConnectionString = $connString
$SqlCommand = $SqlConnection.CreateCommand()
$SqlCommand.CommandText = $QueryText
$DataAdapter = new-object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter $SqlCommand
$dataset = new-object System.Data.Dataset
$DataAdapter.Fill($dataset)

$dataset.Tables[0] | ForEach {
Get-ADUser -identity $_.ADUser -Properties Name, SamAccountName,mail |
Select Name, SamAccountName, mail |
Export-CSV C:\Users\export3.csv -Append -Encoding UTF8
}

Answer 1

I would use the awesome PowerShell community DBATools module for this. It's written by some long-time PowerShell and SQL MVPs and makes this an easy job.

First, install the module with

Install-Module DBATools

The module has two commands we'll need to make this work. First, you convert regular PowerShell objects into a SQL DataTable by using ConvertTo-DBADataTable , then you write it to a SQL DB using Write-DBADataTable .

So here's what that looks like. I start by creating a new SQL DB called DBATools on my SQL instance named SCCM . Next, I get a list of users I want to insert into a table.

Next, I pipe this into | ConvertTo-DbaDataTable | ConvertTo-DbaDataTable and store it in a variable.

$DataTable = get-aduser -Filter * | select Name,DistinguishedName,SurName | ConvertTo-DbaDataTable

And finally, I run Write-DBADataTable to write these rows to a new table (creating the new table by adding -AutoCreateTable )

Write-DbaDataTable -SqlInstance SCCM -Database DBATools `
  -InputObject $DataTable -Table UserTable -AutoCreateTable

Now, I go over to SSMS and refresh to see my new table has been created, with appropriate columns! Awesome, and easey-peasey!