Change Description to Multiple AD Accounts via Powershell Script

Recently, I was in the need to change the description on multiple Active Directory accounts that I had exported from an OU to CSV. They were over 500 so doing it one by one would have been a time consuming task. That's when I decided to do a simple by working script to accomplish this task.

I'm using Powershell but you can other languages such as VBS. I prefer Powershell because it's more robust yet simpler to use and understand and it's the future of Windows Scripting.


Here's the script:

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# Change-Description-To-Users.ps1                                                                 #
# Created by tips4teks.blogspot.com                                                                #
# This script changes the description of AD accounts to whatever is specified # 
##############################################################

Import-module ActiveDirectory
#Declare the path to the CSV file where you have the accounts by Distinguished Name. 
#The first row of the column should be named "DistinguishedName" without quotes.
$CSV='C:\users-to-edit.csv'

#Declare the new description that will be applied to all the accounts in the CSV file.
$Description='Account Disabled by tips4teks.blogspot.com'

#Read the CSV file and change the description to each user object based on the parameters specified.
import-csv -path $CSV | foreach-object { Set-ADUser -identity $_.DistinguishedName -Description $Description}

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