Question

Help with setting an attribute for multiple users

Asked by: kam_uk

Hi

We have Quest ActiveManagement here with the PowerShell snap-in.

I have a distribution group, "DL-HR" in my 2003 Active directory.

I would like to set the with all with a pager attribute of "1234". So I figure I need to do:

Get-QAdGroup -Identity "DL-HR" | Set-????

Does anyone know:

i) How I can complete the command so that the Pager attribute is set?
ii) How I can run the command with a different account?

Thanks

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Answers

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-10-22 at 04:59:47ID: 25633050


Hey Kam_uk :)

Something like this:

Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | %{ Set-QADUser -ObjectAttributes @{ pager='1234' } }

If you want to run that with different credentials you'll have to create a connection, pulling from Get-Help, that goes like this:

$pw = read-host "Enter password" -AsSecureString
Connect-QADService -ConnectionAccount 'company\administrator' -ConnectionPassword $pw
Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | %{ Set-QADUser -Pager "1234" }
Disconnect-QADService

HTH

Chris

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:00:37ID: 25633052


Oops... missed a correction since I discovered there was a Pager parameter.


Something like this:

Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | %{ Set-QADUser -Pager "1234" }

If you want to run that with different credentials you'll have to create a connection, pulling from Get-Help, that goes like this:

$pw = read-host "Enter password" -AsSecureString
Connect-QADService -ConnectionAccount 'company\administrator' -ConnectionPassword $pw
Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | %{ Set-QADUser -Pager "1234" }
Disconnect-QADService


Chris

 

by: kam_ukPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:06:10ID: 25633084

Thanks, just so I can learn for the future, what's the reason for the squiggly brackets?

It makes more sense to run:

Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | Set-QADUser -Pager "1234"

But obviously, this doesn't seem to work with auto-complete? Any ideas?

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:12:26ID: 25633133


I forget if there's an implicit ForEach-Object loop when piping into Set-QADUser, so I added an explicit one which will definitely work :)

So with the brackets, we have this flow in the code above:

Get Members of DL-HR               ->  For Each Member  ->        Set the Pager attribute        ->   End of Loop
Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR"  |              %{                      Set-QADUser -Pager "1234"               }
Or:
Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR"  |     ForEach-Object {         Set-QADUser -Pager "1234"               }


What do you mean by auto-complete here? Is that the GUI for writing it? If so, couldn't say why, never used it, I prefer to stick with Notepad or directly into the shell :)

Chris

 

by: kam_ukPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:25:07ID: 25633250

Hi Chris

Hmm, neither seems to work, the response I get is:

cmdlet set-qaduser at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Identity:

Looks like it wants an identity in response to the Set-QADUser cmdlet?

 

by: Chris-DentPosted on 2009-10-22 at 05:27:06ID: 25633267


This will fix it, we'll have it use the users Distinguished Name.

Chris

Get-QADGroupMember "DL-HR" | %{ Set-QADUser $_.DN -Pager "1234" }

                                              
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by: kam_ukPosted on 2009-10-26 at 04:26:38ID: 25661156

Absolutely perfect ;)

Thanks again Chris, very much appreciated.

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