Customizing the display of objects

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Filtering and Sorting Objects

To filter which objects are displayed

1. Click the Filters icon.

2. From the lists, select the Property, Operator, and enter the value for the filter.

3. Select to Apply, Clear, or Save As as required.

Note: When you select Save, the filter is saved under the selected node.

To modify the columns displayed in the console

• Right-click the column headers to select the ones you want to see, and drag and drop the columns into the required order.

You will only need to do this once, as PowerGUI will remember the selected settings.

Increasing the Number of Objects Displayed

The Quest AD cmdlets use a SizeLimit parameter to specify the number of objects returned. To increase the size, simply add -SizeLimit 0 to any Get-QAD cmdlet call to retrieve all objects.

For example, right-click the Users node, select Properties, and scroll through the Parameters List until you find SizeLimit and set it to 0. Selecting the User node now will retrieve all users, not only the first 1000.

For Script nodes you will need to look for calls to Get-QAD cmdlets and add -sizeLimit 0. For example, Get-QADUser -SizeLimit 0.

Once you have gathered the initial objects and they are displayed to suit your needs, you can further explore the data and affect change where required.

Using Select-Object - When you use Select-Object to populate columns, you are in fact creating new objects of type PSObject with the properties you specify. Since the type of the object becomes the generic PSObject type, the available links and actions are associated with the generic PSObject type.