Practice Find enabled IT staff accounts

Find enabled IT staff accounts

Exercise 2 min read Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7

Written and tested by Dhrub Bharali · Updated 02 October 2026

Return the enabled accounts in the IT department, with their sign-in names.

The task

The IT manager needs a headcount of active IT staff for a license renewal. List each enabled IT account with its sign-in name.

Return the enabled accounts in the IT department, with their sign-in names.

Department groups accounts by team, and Enabled tells you whether the account can sign in. Filtering on both keeps the license count honest.

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 -eq 'IT' | Where-Object Enabled -eq $true | Select-Object Name, SamAccountName

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