Sometimes you want to return properties that match a specific pattern. The following will do that for you:
Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties * | %{Get-Aduser $_.sAMAccountName -Properties @($_ | Get-Member -MemberType Property | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Where {$_ -like "ms*"})}
This gets a user with all properties, then filters those properties by the final like statement and re-gets the user with just those properties. You can also do it with a single get-aduser:
Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties * | %{$_ | Select -Property @($_ | Get-Member -MemberType Property | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Where {$_ -like "ms*"})}
The only downside to this is it doesn’t include the default attributes, so it can be a bit less usefull. If you want to include some specific attributes + all matching a like statement then you can do the following:
Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties * | %{$_ | Select -Property @(@("Name","samACcountName", "Department", "Description", "DisplayName", "DistinguishedName", "employeeType") + ($_ | Get-Member -MemberType Property | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Where {$_ -like "ms*"}))}
And finaly as a code block instead of a one liner:
$user = Get-ADUser Administrator -Properties *
$msProperties = $user | Get-Member -MemberType Property | Select -ExpandProperty Name | Where {$_ -like "ms*"}
$user | Select -Property @(@("Department", "Description", "DisplayName", "DistinguishedName", "employeeType") + $msProperties)
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