Practice Find accounts outside the IT department

Find accounts outside the IT department

Exercise 2 min read Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7

Written and tested by Dhrub Bharali · Updated 02 October 2026

Return every account that is not in the IT department.

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Get-ADUser -Filter * | Where-Object Department -ne 'IT' | Select-Object Name, Department

A new security baseline applies to everyone except the IT team. List the accounts the baseline covers.

Return every account that is not in the IT department.

-ne keeps everything that does not match, which is the right shape when the exception is shorter than the rule.

Run the source by itself and inspect the sample objects. Add each filter separately, then check the final properties and order.

The browser uses a small fictional dataset. Real results depend on the host, module, account and target environment.

Choose an answer, then check your reasoning.

Worked solution

Reveal one approach

1PS> Get-ADUser -Filter * | Where-Object Department -ne 'IT' | Select-Object Name, Department

Write your pipeline below and run it against the fictional sample data, then check your result against the expected answer.

Your pipeline

Interactive simulation · fictional data