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Powershell script looking for user count

Hello,

I am running the following powershell script and it is giving an error "Invalid enumeration context", in get-aduser. I have close to 800,000 user objects in the domain.

$AllUsers = get-aduser -filter *
$TotalUserCount = $AllUsers.count

Could you please suggest how to get this to work. This script worked in other smaller domains.

Thanks

David Johnson, CD

the default limit is 1000 users you can use the
get-aduser -resultsetsize $null to return all

$AllUsers = get-aduser -filter * -resultsetsize $null
$TotalUserCount = $AllUsers.count

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Quest Tools get-qaduser -sizelimit 0 is the equivalent

Parity123

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I tested this. It looks like it is running for a while and then terminates with error cannot contact server, unless the connection times out after a while.

Are there any other options

Parity123

ASKER

I still get the same error - invalid enumeration context

compdigit44

What David Johnson post earlier is very similar to the examples in the offing like but they use brackets

http://support.risualblogs.com/blog/2012/07/24/view-number-of-user-accounts-in-ad-via-ad-powershell/

David Johnson, CD

that means that it is timing out .. the reason for the limit was to not overload your DC. use a filter i.e. run it 36 times

get-aduser -Filter 'samaccountname -like "a*" '

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$firstletter="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
$usercount = 0
$lettercount = $firstletter.Length

for($i=0; $i -le $lettercount; $i++){
$filter = $FirstLetter[$i] + "*"
$users = get-aduser -Filter 'samaccountname -like $filter'
    if ($users.Count -ne $null){
        $usercount += $users.Count
    }
}
$usercount

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I tried a few things