Get user description not working as expected - Powershell

[penfold]

I'm trying to get information from the Description field from our accounts in AD.

I'm using the following powershell command to try and get the description field of an AD account.

$Description= Get-ADUser $row.samaccountname -Properties Description | Select-object Description

but this give me an output of @{Description=Actual Description} rather than just Actual Description

 

I want to use the $description as a variable as I want to add to it but I can't seem to get it to work. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[pcstru]

$Description= Get-ADUser -Identity $row.samaccountname -Properties Description | foreach-object { $_.Description }

 

In cases where Get-AdUser returns multiple rows, $Description will be set to the last one.

[penfold]

Thank you very much.

[jinnantonnixx]

get-members is your friend

 

$Description | gm will show that the description is a note property. To get the contents of this, reference the 'description' field of your variable.

 

So to get your text, you should reference

 

$Description.description

 

Edit - your result is showing that you're returning an array, so pcstru's advice is good.

Edited April 27, 2016 by jinnantonnixx