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Use PowerShell to export AD User accounts to a CSV with their properties flattened

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This queries for specific users (modify this to match your need)

Taking a list of users Flatten-Object will go through their properties and join multivalued attributes with a semi-colon so that you can export it in a useful way to CSV.

# Change this to and LDAP filter that fits your needs
$admins = Get-ADUser -filter "employeeType -eq 'Administrator Acct'" -Properties *

# take multivalued properties and join them with ;
function Flatten-Object {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
        $object
    )
    process {
        $flattened_object = [pscustomobject]@{}

        foreach ($field in $object | get-member) {
            if ($field.MemberType -eq “Property” -and $field.Name -notlike “__*”) {
                $flattened_object | Add-Member -NotePropertyName $field.Name -NotePropertyValue $($object.$($field.Name) -join ";")
            }
        }
        $flattened_object
    }
}

$admins | Flatten-Object | Export-Csv -Path "user.csv" -NoTypeInformation
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