Help with PS script for computers in AD onprem

Borislav_Vit 

Hi.

Yes, it's possible.

The following basic script will allow you to do this and would be fine for smaller environments.

For larger environments, you would want to invest some time in coming up with an algorithm for calculating the target organisational unit rather than using the mappings approach in the example below. It would be more complex to do but worth it in the long run.

Example script

# Create your computer name prefix-to-target location mappings.
$Locations = @{
    "BN1-N-" = "OU=Notebooks,OU=SomeRandomOU1,DC=yourdomain,DC=com";
    "KN1-W-" = "OU=Workstations,OU=SomeRandomOU2,DC=yourdomain,DC=com";
}

$SearchBase = "CN=Computers,$(([adsi]'LDAP://RootDSE').defaultNamingContext[0])";

Get-ADObject -Filter { (objectClass -eq "computer") } -SearchBase $SearchBase |
    ForEach-Object {
        $Computer = $_;

        foreach ($Key in $Locations.Keys)
        {
            if ($Computer.Name.StartsWith($Key, [System.StringComparison]::OrdinalIgnoreCase))
            {
                $Computer | Move-ADObject -TargetPath ($Locations[$Key]);
                break;
            }
        }
    }

Cheers,

Lain

Edited: Uncommenting the intended search base line and removing my localised test line - both of which I should have done prior to posting.