How to search user in AD using powershell while skipping folders

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Current powershell script being used is in this format:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties EmailAddress, DisplayName -SearchBase "OU=USERS, OU=Site, OU=$_, DC=domain" -Server ServerName | Select DisplayNAme, EmailAddress

My problem is that the OU users, and site are buried in different folders one level up, and I can't figure out how to make the powershell script look thru all the folders above (OU=$_). Using OU=* doesn't work either (bad syntax error).

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The -SearchBase parameter doesn't allow wildcards, if I understand correctly, you're looking for all parents OUs having OU=USERS, OU=Site as child OU, in which case, you can first filter for all OUs with Name Users then filter again for those OUs where their DistinguishedName contains OU=USERS, OU=Site and lastly feed these OUs to Get-ADUser -SearchBase:

(Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -LDAPFilter "(name=users)").DistinguishedName | ForEach-Object {
    if($_ -notlike "OU=USERS, OU=Site*") { return }
    Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties EmailAddress, DisplayName -SearchBase $_ -Server ServerName
} | Select DisplayName, EmailAddress
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