Powershell move computer AD objects from one OU to another OU

If you are looking for Powershell a script to move AD objects from one location to another location then you are at the right place, in this article we explain how to move multiple AD objects from source to destination O.U with a simple script.

[cmdletbinding()]            

param (
[parameter(mandatory=$true)]
$DestinationOU
)            
$sourcepath = “OU=Sales Servers,OU=Deployment Servers,DC=CitrixTech,DC=COM”
#We need to import the Active directory Module

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$Domain = [ADSI]""
$DN=$domain.distinguishedName
$SourcePath = "CN=Servers," + $DN
$Servers = Get-ADServer -Filter * -SearchBase $SourcePath
if(!$Servers) 
{
 write-host "No Servers are found in O.U"
 return
}
foreach ($Server in $Servers) 
{
 if(!(Move-ADObject $Server -TargetPath $DestinationOU)) 
 {
  $Status = "Server Objects Moved successfully"
 } 
 else 
 {
  $Status = "FAILED"
 }
 $resultobj = New-Object -TypeName PSobject
 $resultobj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name ServerName -Value $Server.Name.tostring()
 $resultobj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name SourcePath -Value $SourcePath
 $resultobj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name DestinationPath -Value $DesitinationOU
 $resultobj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name Status -Value $Status
 $resultobj
}

How to execute the script

One needs to save this script name as Moveadobjects.ps1 and then run the script as below.

.\Moveadobjects.ps1 -DestinationOU “OU=Retail Servers,OU=Deployment Servers,DC=CitrixTech,DC=COM”

In the above exmples we moved the server objects from Sale O.U to Retail O.U, source O.U is “OU=Sales Servers,OU=Deployment Servers,DC=CitrixTech,DC=COM” and destional O.U is “OU=Retail Servers,OU=Deployment Servers,DC=CitrixTech,DC=COM”

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