Get All Users From Farm Level Into XML in SharePoint 2010

Introduction

I needed to get all unique users from the Farm Level using PowerShell for my requirement. I thought it might be available in the web since it might be used many times by other developers but seriously I didn't get any proper one so I wrote it myself and thought of sharing it with you all.

So here is one more new article to get all the users in a Farm Level from all site collections, groups and whereever they are hidden in a Farm.

You can get the output into a text file, Excel sheet or XML files. You just need to change the extension. Here I will be moving them to XML.

So here is the script, kindly have a look at the commented lines for descriptions.

Script

#get all users from Farm level
#Snapin
Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#File Output Name Generator( This will give a name to the xml with name as ALLFarm Users and Todays’s Current Date & Time)
$timestamp = get-date -format "yyyyMMdd_hhmmtt"
$filenameStart = "AllFARMUsers"
$logfile = ("{0}{1}.xml" -f $filenamestart, $timestamp)

#Header Added
$header = "All Farm Users"
$header | out-file -FilePath $logfile
$userDetailsArray = @()
$finaluserDetailsArray = @()
#Calling the list and Connecting the Farm
$iissitelist = get-spwebapplication(“Give your Farm level Site Url")
foreach($onesite in $iissitelist)
{
    foreach ($SiteCollection in $onesite.sites)
    {
        write-host $SiteCollection -foregroundcolor Blue
        foreach ($web in $SiteCollection.Allwebs)
        {
            write-host " " $web.url $web.name "users:" -foregroundcolor yellow
            # Write-host " " $web.users | select name
            foreach ($userw in $web.users)
            {
                if ($userw -like "yourdomain\*")
                {
                    write-host " " $userw -foregroundcolor white
                    $userwLogin = $userw.LoginName
                    $userDetailsArray =$userDetailsArray + $userwLogin
                }
            }
            $web.Dispose()
        }
    }
}
#Tagging them to an array
$userArray = $userDetailsArray | select -unique
foreach ($value in $userArray) {
    #Result to xml File
    "$value" | out-file -FilePath $logfile -append
}

• You just need to change the Farm Level URL and no other change is required.
• Now save this file as a .ps1 in Notepad selecting All Files.
• Run it on the Windows PowerShell Modules.
• You will see the users reflecting on the window from various site collections, sites and sub sites.
• It will generate an .xml file to the same location with all Unique users.
• Yes all Unique Users so you don't have double names coming up.
• There you go, saving a lot of time and effort.

Keep learning!

Cheers.