How to copy one attribute to another

[Jesper Stein]

Hi

I need to move data from one attribute to another on a user object in Active Dirctory.

Today the attribute homePhone is porpulated with users private mobile number. I need to move this to otherMobile.

First I try to do this on my own account this way:

$homePhone = get-aduser -identity INITIALS -Properties * | Select-Object homePhone

Then I want to copy from homePhone to otherMobile this way:

set-aduser -identity INITIALS -add @{otherMobile='$homePhone')

This sort of works. In my otherMobile is now: {otherMobile='+45XXXXXXXX')

How can I only put in the value $homePhone and not the whole string?

Of course in the end the script should find all users with the homePhone porpulated and copy the value to otherMobile...

[#2]

Please use the below script and check.

$users = get-aduser -Filter * -Properties *|Where-Object {$_.homePhone -ne $null }| Select-Object Samaccountname,homePhone

foreach($user in $users)
{
set-aduser -identity $user.Samaccountname -add @{otherMobile=$user.homephone}
} 

[#3]

Hi.

That works fine. But I made a little error, it was the attribute otherhomePhone and not homePhone. When I replace homePhone with otherhomePhone, it does not work any more.

Can you tell me why?

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Hi
Otherhomephone is multivalue attribute so that it is not working and you can try below script

$users = get-aduser -Filter * -Properties *|Where-Object {$_.otherhomePhone -ne $null }| Select-Object Samaccountname,otherhomePhone

foreach($user in $users)
{

 if($user.otherhomePhone.count -gt 1)
 {

 foreach($hph in $user.otherhomePhone)
 {
 
 set-aduser -identity $user.Samaccountname -add @{otherMobile=$hph}
 }

 }
 else
 {
 set-aduser -identity $user.Samaccountname -add @{otherMobile=$user.otherhomePhone[0]}
 }
}

[#5]

Worked great. Thanks for your help :)