I am trying to find recursively the groups on folders and their distinguished names (DN) through an extensive structure of directories / subdirectories on a NAS share.
I made code and it works, but it is slow and gobbles up memory for some reason.
I am looking for help to understand what I might be doing wrong, or if there is a faster / less memory intensive way to do this.
It seems to slow down where it takes each
$acctand creates the$acctsQADObjectwithGet-QADObject.I see 8-10
$acctper container (directory), and it takes about 5 seconds or more to process each.It seems like each iteration of
$acctis caching something that it does not release, so each loop of$acctyou can watch memory increase by 0.02+ MB.I was popping off the
$acctfrom$acctsand trying to force$acctsQADObjectto$nullto try and get some memory to clear. It does not seem to help at all though. The$groupshash is then taken to another function to get the users for each group, but I think that is fine.
Note: The Get-QADObject was from quest.com, and their forum seems pretty silent, so I was hoping to find help here.
The code I have to date:
$containers = @(Get-Item -Path $Path | ? {$_.psIscontainer})
$containers += Get-ChildItem -Path $Path -Recurse | ? {$_.psIscontainer}
if ($containers -eq $null) {break}
while ($containers) {
$container,$containers = $containers
Write-Output "Container: " $container
$accts=$null
$accts=@()
$accts = @((Get-ACL $container.fullname).Access)
while ($accts) {
$acct,$accts = $accts
$acctsQADObject = $null
$acctsQADObject = Get-QADObject -PageSize 1000 -DontUseDefaultIncludedProperties -SizeLimit 0 -Identity ([string]$acct.IdentityReference)
if ($acctsQADObject.ObjectClass -contains 'group') {
$Name = $acctsQADObject.Name
$DN = $acctsQADObject.DN
$key = "$($Name)|$($DN)"
if (!$groups.ContainsKey($key) -and $key -notcontains "Group|Member") {
Write-Output "Found first reference to a group: $($DN) assigned to directory $container"
$msg += "Found first reference to a group: $($DN) assigned to directory $container `n"
$groups.add($key,$DN)
}
}
}
}