{"id":2369,"date":"2013-12-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/12\/22\/powertip-set-custom-attributes-in-active-directory\/"},"modified":"2013-12-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-set-custom-attributes-in-active-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-set-custom-attributes-in-active-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Set Custom Attributes in Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Use the Set-ADUser<\/b> cmdet to modify custom attributes.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to modify a custom attribute in Active Directory?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Set-ADUser<\/b> cmdlet and it’s –add<\/b>, -replace<\/b>, and –remove<\/b> parameters to adjust custom attributes.<\/p>\n

For example, to update the Info<\/b> attribute in Active Directory and replace it with a new value:<\/p>\n

SET-ADUSER john.smith –replace @{info=”John Smith is a Temporary Contractor”}<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Use the Set-ADUser cmdet to modify custom attributes.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to modify a custom attribute in Active Directory?  Use the Set-ADUser cmdlet and it’s –add, -replace, and –remove parameters to adjust custom attributes. For example, to update the Info attribute in Active Directory and replace it with a new value: SET-ADUSER john.smith –replace @{info=”John Smith is a Temporary Contractor”}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,154,45],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Use the Set-ADUser cmdet to modify custom attributes.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to modify a custom attribute in Active Directory?  Use the Set-ADUser cmdlet and it’s –add, -replace, and –remove parameters to adjust custom attributes. For example, to update the Info attribute in Active Directory and replace it with a new value: SET-ADUSER john.smith –replace @{info=”John Smith is a Temporary Contractor”}<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}