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How can I get all this to not only output on the screen, but to save to a text file in CSV format?

$OUs = Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)" `
 -SearchBase "OU=GA,OU=EAST,DC=corp,DC=chm,DC=com" | Select distinguishedName
 ForEach ($OU In $OUs)
 Select Name
 

I have tried

$OUs = Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)" `
 -SearchBase "OU=GA,OU=EAST,DC=corp,DC=chartercom,DC=com" | Select distinguishedName
 ForEach ($OU In $OUs)
 Select Name
 | | export-CSV c:tempoutfile.csv –noType

And many other formats, but I always get the error:

An empty pipe element is not allowed.

Use the Tee-Object cmdlet.

The Tee-Object cmdlet enables you to display data in the Windows PowerShell window and to save that same data to a text file, all with a single command.

dir | Tee-Object -file dir.txt

You should use it like,

 ForEach ($OU In $OUs)
 Select Name
 | Tee-Object -file c:tempoutfile.txt

Note: It has an alias, tee, which is the same as Unix' tee.

An empty pipe element is not allowed.

You have a duplicate bar in the last line:

} | | export-CSV c:tempoutfile.csv –noType

That doesn't fix the error completely, because you can't pipe directly from the foreach loop. You can export it another way to a CSV file instead of a text file like Tee-Object does (you could convert Tee-Object to CSV). This way, it outputs the results to a CSV file and prints the results to the screen:

$OUs = Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)" `
 -SearchBase "OU=GA,OU=EAST,DC=corp,DC=chartercom,DC=com" | Select distinguishedName

$results = @()
ForEach ($OU In $OUs)

 $OU.distinguishedName
 Get-ADComputer -SearchBase $OU.distinguishedName -SearchScope OneLevel `
 -Filter * $results | Export-Csv c:tempoutfile.csv -NoTypeInformation
write-host $results

This can also be done with a much simpler script:

Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=GA,OU=EAST,DC=corp,DC=chartercom,DC=com" -SearchScope OneLevel -Filter * | Select Name | Export-Csv c:tempoutfile.csv -NoTypeInformation
Import-Csv c:tempoutfile.csv