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Hello,

Pls would you advice, I have service account, and in description is written samaccount name of the user. I am extracting it with regex. But how can I do it, that when user is not there it will write-output me that user is not there. I am trying it with try/catch or trap but no output. Please advice.

Many thanks

Get-QADUser -Enabled 'xxxx' -LdapFilter "((!sAMAccountName=Vxx*)(!sAMAccountName=xxx*))" |
%{ 

try{
$descSamAccount = $_ |%{[regex]::Match($_.description,"\w\d{7}")}
$descNameMail = $descSamAccount.value | Get-QADUser `
-ErrorAction Stop | select -ExpandProperty email 
$descNameMail

}
catch
{
Write-Output "user is not set or doesnt exists"
}

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Chris Dent

Hey :)

Perhaps like this.

Get-QADUser -Enabled 'xxxx' -LdapFilter "((!sAMAccountName=Vxx*)(!sAMAccountName=xxx*))" | ForEach-Object {
  If ($_.Description -Match '\w\d{7}') {
    $User = Get-QADUser -SamAccountName $Matches[0]
    If ($User) {
      $User | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Email
    } Else {
      Write-Host "Could not find user"
    }
  } Else {
    Write-Host "Username not set"
  }
}

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Chris

wls3

To answer your question, I do not suspect an error will occur when a lookup fails because no error is generated. It simply does not return a result, therefore the the catch block has nothing passed to it and the control falls through. Chris' script shifts from a try catch-block to the if-then pattern. This focuses on a boolean result instead an error result, which, in this case is what you would expect.

Radim88

ASKER

thanks a lot, I was only curious about this: -ErrorAction Stop , it wont set it as a stop error?

Thx

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Radim88

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thx a lot