I have some users in AD, which had a wrong Telephone property specified.
The value was correct specified in the Mobile Phone property, so I wanted to copy this value from every user into the Telephone property.
A picture says more than a 1000 words.
Off course, PowerShell comes to mind.
First I tried it with the standard AD commands get-aduser en set-aduser.
Get-ADuser will give you the Telephone property and mobilephone property, but set-aduser will not let you update the telephone property, it only support 47 properties and Telephone isn’t one of them.
Next stop: Quests PowerShell AD commands.
You can use get-qaduser and set-qaduser.
So I tried the command:
get-qaduser –SearchRoot ‘Domain/OU/OU’ | set-qaduser – PhoneNumber $_.mobilePhone
This gave me an empty PhoneNumber property in AD.
After trying a lot and searching the internet, I stumbled upon this forum post, who else than Shay Levy would give me the answer.
get-qaduser -SearchRoot ‘Domain/OU/OU’ | % {set-qaduser $_ -telephonenumber $($_.MobilePhone)}








