lists – Mohammed Wasay

One of my clients had several disabled users showing up in distribution lists and security groups and this was creating unnecessary noise in email, alerts, etc. I highly encourage all administrators to keep their AD neat and tidy. The following PowerShell script searches for disabled users in Groups and Distribution Groups and removes them:

# This script removes all disabled users from all security and distribution groups in the specified "searchOU"

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$searchOU = "OU=Groups,DC=domain,DC=local"

$adgroup = Get-ADGroup -Filter 'GroupCategory -eq "Security" -or GroupCategory -eq "Distribution"' -SearchBase $searchOU
$adgroup | ForEach-Object{ $group = $_
	Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Recursive | %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName -Properties Enabled | ?{$_.Enabled -eq $false}} | ForEach-Object{ $user = $_
		$uname = $user.Name
		$gname = $group.Name
		Write-Host "Removing $uname from $gname" -Foreground Yellow
		Remove-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Member $user -Confirm:$false
	}
}

# This script removes all disabled users from all security and distribution groups in the specified "searchOU"

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$searchOU = "OU=Groups,DC=domain,DC=local"

$adgroup = Get-ADGroup -Filter 'GroupCategory -eq "Security" -or GroupCategory -eq "Distribution"' -SearchBase $searchOU

$adgroup | ForEach-Object{ $group = $_

Get-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Recursive | %{Get-ADUser -Identity $_.distinguishedName -Properties Enabled | ?{$_.Enabled -eq $false}} | ForEach-Object{ $user = $_

$uname = $user.Name

$gname = $group.Name

Write-Host "Removing $uname from $gname" -Foreground Yellow

Remove-ADGroupMember -Identity $group -Member $user -Confirm:$false

}

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