(This post providesinformation on how you can use Management Shell for AD from Quest Software todo various management tasks for your Active Directory. For a quick introductioninto Management Shell for AD, please refer to: http://powergui.org/thread.jspa?threadID=2700&tstart=0)

If you havemore then 1000 users in your AD domain, the Get-QADUser will not display themall. There is a default limit on items to display in Get-QAD* results and thelimit is 1000. To display all objects in AD, use -SizeLimit parameter (or -slas alias):

To countobjects, use Measure-Object built-in cmdlet:

So, we havetotal 4325 user accounts in domain.

It mighttake some time to execute this, as PowerShell first load all users from AD,then count them.

To display countonly, use Format-Table or Format-List built-in cmdlet and select required propertyfrom the pipe. We will use Format-List for more friendly presentation:

Now let'scount groups:

To countobjects of any type, use Get-QADObject cmdlet. Let's count OUs:

Regards,
Andrei [Quest]
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