How to Split DistinguishedName?

Question

I have a list of folks and their DN from AD (I do not have direct access to that AD). Their DNs are in format:

$DNList = \'CN=Bob Dylan,OU=Users,OU=Dept,OU=         


        

Answer 1

You can remove the first element with a replacement like this:

$DNList -replace '^.*?,(..=.*)$', '$1'

^.*?, is the shortest match from the beginning of the string to a comma.
(..=.*)$ matches the rest of the string (starting with two characters after the comma followed by a = character) and groups them, so that the match can be referenced in the replacement as $1.