Add multiple users to AD powershell script

Question

I have a powershell script to remove a user stored under the variable $User which is taken from a user input in the command line. How do I specify multiple users and remove all of them?

Script is below

$User = Read-Host - Prompt 'Enter user name'
Remove-ADUser $User
Write-Host "'$user' account has been removed press any key to close..."
$Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

Answer 1

Agree with @Theo but if you know what you are doing there is a simple solution:

$User = Read-Host - Prompt 'Enter user name'
foreach($u in $User.Split(',')) 
{
   Remove-ADUser $u
   Write-Host "'$u' account has been removed"
}

$Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")

All you need to know is delimiter which you have to use. In that case it is ',', so you need to pass logins in pattern: user1,user2

Answer 2

perhaps this helps little with getting a more save result. it took me a few minutes to write it. maybe it helps.

######################################
# first make sure we know what is happing..
######################################

$name = 'bob'
$AccountToDelete = Get-ADuser -filter {enabled -eq $true} -properties "displayname" | where {$_.displayname -match $name}

######################################
# then go a step further
######################################

$name = 'bob'
$AccountToDelete = Get-ADuser -filter {enabled -eq $true} -properties "displayname" | where {$_.displayname -match $name}

#show results of filter
$AccountToDelete.name

if ($AccountToDelete.count -gt 1)
    {
        write-warning 'more then one user:'
        $AccountToDelete.name
        BREAK
    } 
    ELSE 
    {
    
    'delete {0}' -f $AccountToDelete.name
    Remove-ADUser $AccountToDelete -WhatIf
}


######################################
# improvement 1
######################################

$names = 'bob','don' 

foreach ($name in $names){

    $AccountToDelete = Get-ADuser -filter {enabled -eq $true} -properties "displayname" | where {$_.displayname -match $name}

    #show results of filter
    $AccountToDelete.name

    if ($AccountToDelete.count -gt 1)
        {
            write-warning 'more then one user:'
            $AccountToDelete.name
            BREAK
        } 
     ELSE 
    {
    
        'delete {0}' -f $AccountToDelete.name
        Remove-ADUser $AccountToDelete -WhatIf    

    }
}


######################################
# improvement 2
######################################

#now add names to delete in a notepad textfile, one name per line
<#
you can use this to create a file
PS c:\users\administator> notepad users.txt 
#>

#replace the string arrary $names = 'bob','don' 
$names = (get-content .\users.txt).split('^t')
$names 
'processing {0} names...' -f $names.count

foreach ($name in $names){

    $AccountToDelete = Get-ADuser -filter {enabled -eq $true} -properties "displayname" | where {$_.displayname -match $name}

    #show results of filter
    $AccountToDelete.name

    if ($AccountToDelete.count -gt 1)
        {
            write-warning 'more then one user:'
            $AccountToDelete.name
            BREAK
        } 
     ELSE 
    {
    
        'delete {0}' -f $AccountToDelete.name
        Remove-ADUser $AccountToDelete -WhatIf    

    }
}

#finally if the script is showing you the results you need you can remove the -WhatIf