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How to move Computers from one OU to another using Powershell

Hi, 

After lots of googling I have found many ways to do this work done but this is the easiest way I have found.

First of all you need to know what is the Distinguished Name of every Object you work.

To get Organization Unit DistinguishedName run this command first.

Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter 'Name -like "*"' | Format-Table Name, DistinguishedName -A

After this you will get all OU's distinguished name, copy OU's distinguished name which you want to move your object Computer or User.

Now to MOVE computer

Move-ADObject -Identity "Your computer Name" -TargetPath “Organization Unit DistinguishedName”

 Example: 

Move-ADObject -Identity "Comp1" -TargetPath “OU= Hebbal,OU=Bangalore,OU=India,DC=emkayglobal,DC=net”

In this example I want to move Comp1 computer in “Hebbal” OU. What you seeing in example is complete Distinguished Name’s so don’t get confused.