Powershell - Disable and Move user

  We have quite a bit of mobility with our students.  When a student leaves we typically hold on to their accounts for a while.  It seems more often than not, we get them back a couple months later.  Typically we just disable them and move them to an Organizational Unit(OU) to keep Active Directory(AD) clean.  Again, as in my last post, this is pretty simple in Active Directory Users and Computers(ADUC).  The issue I run into is I don't always have ADUC open and with Windows 7 and newer it seems to take a little longer than it should to open.  Fortunately, I usually have the Powershell ISE open.

Here's what I do:

 $user = Read-Host "Please enter the user to disable(Logon Name)"  

This lets us enter in the person we want to disable through a prompt.  Once the username is entered, the below command disables the user.

 Disable-ADAccount -Identity $user  

If you know the user's logon name or have the Distinguished Name you could skip the Read-Host and just enter the username in place of the $user variable

The last step is to move the disabled account to a different OU.

 Move-ADObject -Identity $user -TargetPath "OU=ToDelete,OU=Students,DC=test,DC=com"  

This works well and does everything I need.  However, it's 3 lines and I try to keep things as short as possible.  I haven't put in enough time to get it to 1 line, so I'll settle for 2.

 $user = Read-Host "Please enter the user to disable(Logon Name)"  
 Disable-ADAccount -Identity $user | Move-ADObject -TargetPath "OU=ToDelete,OU=Students,DC=test,DC=com"  

Hope this helps someone.