Exclude test guest users from a script listing all guest users

fstorer

Hey, Francesco.

Yeah, there's multiple ways to tackle this both in the server-side (which would be rather ugly) and client-side filtering contexts.

If there's anything common about the test accounts, perhaps a client-side Regex approach would be easiest, as that would automatically identify any new test accounts added later on.

Here's an example of the client-side Regex approach, which I've tacked onto the "getting" side:

$GuestUsers = Get-AzureADUser -Filter "UserType eq 'Guest'" -All $true | Where-Object { $_.displayName -notmatch "test|someOtherName|yetAnotherName" } | Select-Object DisplayName,JobTitle,Mail,UserType,AccountEnabled | Sort-Object DisplayName

Basically, you're just added values to exclude separated by the pipe ("|") symbol.

If you want to go down the array path, this is one approach you could take. The notable difference in my example is that only exact matches would be excluded.

You could blend the two but for 15 or so accounts, it's not worth doing so.

$Exclusions = @(
    "test1",
    "test2",
    "test3"
)

$GuestUsers = Get-AzureADUser -Filter "UserType eq 'Guest'" -All $true | Where-Object { $_.displayName -notin $Exclusions } | Select-Object DisplayName,JobTitle,Mail,UserType,AccountEnabled | Sort-Object DisplayName

Cheers,

Lain