Powershell Passing Variable to -Filter with Wild Card

Question

I am having a hard time here on this one and I know its probably a simple syntax problem. I don\'t know how to pass this variable into the code chunk and have it acknowledged co

Answer 1

Strange behaviour, this is not THE answer but a turn arround ; personnaly, I use -LDAPFilter :

Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(userprincipalname=$user*)"

The polish notation for the filter is a bit disconcerting at the begining, but here, it's the natural way of filtering using the underlaying protocol LDAP.

Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter "(|(userprincipalname=$user*)(samAccountName=$user))"

You can get more information about this syntax in Search Filter Syntax, you can also get corresponding filters in About_ActiveDirectory_Filter.

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If you really want to use the -Filter syntax you can do the following (I'am not so proud of that):

$userstar = "$user*"
Get-ADUser -Filter {(userprincipalname -like $userstar) -or (samAccountName -like $user)}