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.