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In this lesson we'll talk about modifying the user properties and the previous lesson.

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We've seen how to create user accounts use an Active Directory power show module and Active Directory

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administrative center.

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The task of system administrator will not and just by creating user objects in Active Directory they

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will also be responsible for modifying and managing them.

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This lesson will help you to understand the process involved in modifying the user accounts using power

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shell.

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Since modifying user accounts has a very big scope we'll discuss a few examples.

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Example cases where a bulk user modification is required.

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These examples will help you to understand the modification process.

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You can leverage these examples to modify any other attributes in Active Directory like updating the

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description of a user object updating the telephone number of multiple users enabling or disable user

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accounts in bulk moving user accounts to another you before starting to modify user properties.

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Let's brush up on the basics with graphical user interface to update the description of a user account.

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You'll typically follow the steps open Active Directory administrative center to search for for a user

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name in Active Directory.

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Go to the properties of the object and update the description and save your changes by clicking on a

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kid.

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What happens under the scenes when you update the description of the object and save it.

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The system rewrites the value to the respective attribute of that user object.

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You can view all attributes and their values using the attribute editor tab in Active Directory administrative

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center or Active Directory Users and Computers.

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Of course you can also use Ada as I added that MSE tool for those purposes.

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So let's find some user with a name Tom and to view his attributes details in attribute editor.

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So in order to update in India tales of a user object.

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First we need to know its attribute name or display name and also all this.

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Remember that the names for properties you see and graphical user interface tools might not be the same

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as what you're seeing the attribute editor.

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For example the first name field you see in graphical user interface is translated to a given name in

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the attribute editor.

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Similar to the goofy approach we can search for a user object and list its attributes using power shell

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with get Dash 80 user command led and we can add filter.

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For example we can type get a user filter parameter and we'll filter it by name which is equal to Tom.

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This will return the user object with the name attribute having the value of Tom by default it will

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return only a basic set of attributes.

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If you want to see all the attributes of this user object then specify the property parameter so let's

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add to this command property parameter and we'll be looking for all the properties of this user.

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The wildcard for all the properties as you might remember is asterisk.

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You can also query users matching their name.

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In that case you can add asterisk to the filter you've used before like Tom and asterisks will find

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all the users which are starting with Tom.

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Similarly you can query all objects inside a particular organizational unit by passing the or you distinguished

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name to their search based parameter.

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So we could type get user filter parameter asterisks search based parameter and we'll be looking in

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lab.

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Oh you you might have another oh you so you have to change this address which are suitable to your environment.

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Now when we know how to search for objects let's move on to learn how to modify them updating the description

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of a user object is not that hard.

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Let's use that for Tom object which we have found before.

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So we could create a variable which will be called Dollar character user OBJ which is for user object

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and it will be equal to get thus a user with filter by name which is equal to Tom and properties will

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be looking for for all properties of that user object.

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We can also now view the current description of the user object by using the following command the variable

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user OBJ dot description assuming that the user account has a description set to replace the current

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description with a new value.

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First we need to understand what data type this attribute will accept.

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As you might remember we can find this out.

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You then get type method.

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You can invoke this method as shown in the following command variable User object the description that

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get type in brackets the output of this command shows that it accepts data types driven so to update

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the description to a new value.

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We need to use the set.

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Is a user command led and passed the user object wearable to the identity parameter and the string that

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you want to set in the description field to the description parameter.

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We have this command and this command will return to the power shall prompt him.

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Power shall render if it completes without any errors so the command looks like that set a user with

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identity parameter which is user object variable description parameter which is the new description

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will be modify and so in quotes we have to add a new description and to verify if the new description

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is updated and the user description field we can either check it through the graphical user interface

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or wrong the power shall command that we used for querying the user object in the preceding commands.

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So putting everything together the following code will update the description of a given active directory

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user first will set the variable user name then will set and other wearable new description which will

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be equal to some string.

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We also at user object wearable which will be equal to get the user with filter and properties.

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We could also use right host to get the car and description of the user object and after that we set

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new description with set the user identity will be equal to the variable User object and a description

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parameter which will be equal to new description variable which we have added before and now we could

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get the user and check the new description.

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So we do that with a new variable User object or in my case it's the same variable which I've used before

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which is equal to get the user fill turn by name.

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User name and its properties and we could output it to the screen and see the new description of the

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object in such a way you can update valence of any other attribute in the procedure shown in this code.

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So you could try updating for example the display name of a user for your practice.