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Powershell query for OU membership

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I have a list of computers in a text file and I want to query AD to pull the OU they belong to.  Is this possible, i know to query ad to pull the computer from the OU, but i want to take a preexisting list and query to get OU membership
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Emmanuel AdebayoGlobal Windows Infrastructure Engineer - Consultant
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Dsquery command will do this for you perfectly
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but I'd have to do one at a time right?
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Can you help with the syntax, I'm not familiar with dsquery, mostly use PS
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