PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD

flaxking

Probably either

"smtp:$($GivenName).$($Surname)@$($Domain)"

Or

('smtp:' + $GivenName + '.' + $Surname + '@' + $Domain)

flaxking

Did you test your string creation on its own?

wrx7m

@flaxking said in PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD:

Probably either

"smtp:$($GivenName).$($Surname)@$($Domain)"

Or

('smtp:' + $GivenName + '.' + $Surname '@' + $Domain)

The first option yields the same results. The second, errors out.

wrx7m

@flaxking said in PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD:

Did you test your string creation on its own?

I have not and am not exactly sure how to.

flaxking

@wrx7m said in PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD:

@flaxking said in PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD:
Probably either
"smtp:$($GivenName).$($Surname)@$($Domain)"
Or
('smtp:' + $GivenName + '.' + $Surname '@' + $Domain)
The first option yields the same results. The second, errors out.

Yeah, the second one was missing a +

flaxking

You're also trying to put an object into a string, which will only work if that object it set to print out the value you're looking for by default

flaxking

So in order to access the GivenName property on the object you have you would do $GivenName.GivenName

you could just do:

$User = Get-ADUser -Identity $SamAccountName
$User.GivenName
$User.Surname

in which case your smtp string would be "smtp:$($User.GivenName).$($User.Surname)@$Domain"

flaxking

Powershell is object oriented, which is super important to realize when working with it, and that is what usually gives people the problem with it, if they do not have previous experience with objects. It makes a big learning curve increase.

On you 'Write-Host' test on your Set-ADUser command, you see "System.Collections.DictionaryEntry" because that is telling you what object is there. You're creating dictionary objects, so it's not going to automatically write out the contents of the dictionary.

Obsolesce

So what you're looking at now is something like this:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$SamAccountName = Read-Host -Prompt "SamAccountName"
$Domain = Read-Host -Prompt "Type the domain of the address you wish to DELETE"
$user = Get-ADUser -Identity $SamAccountName
Set-ADUser $user -Remove @{proxyAddresses="smtp:$($user.GivenName).$($user.Surname)@$Domain"}

wrx7m

@flaxking said in PowerShell - Using Variables to Delete SMTP Proxy Addresses in AD:

if they do not have previous experience with objects

Describes me. lol