Newbie wants to do funky network admin things

i spent easter weekend learning powershell , regular expressions, , began it, thought, hey, can use this!

here's want do:

1. query ad computers in ou

2. parse information obtain computer names (using regex hopefully).

3. use resulting list powershell wmi queries against computers in list (-computername)

is ambitious newbie?  can point me resources regarding want do?

so top half of basic ad query, returns list of directoryentries $colresults...

so, foreach de (directoryentry) in colresults array, dig in properties, , grab name... basic view of this..

$colresults | %{write-host $_.properties.name}
 you'll see there no cn there , host name. last line of code how you'd use get-wmiobject pull info

$osresults = $colresults | % { gwmi win32_operatingsystem -computername $_.properties.name -erroraction silentlycontinue}
 foreach (%) object in colresults wmi call (gwmi) win32_operatingsystem each computer (-computername $_.properties.name) , store in $osresults

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