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Powershell Loop causing issues, need a different way to display my result...

I have the following code:

$Member = Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $DL_Selection | select PrimarySmtpAddress
foreach($Address in $Member){
      if ($Address.PrimarySmtpAddress -match $eMail_Address){
            [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("You ARE a member of this Distribution Group.")
      }
      else {
            [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("You are NOT a member of this Distribution Group.")
      }
}

and as you can image I will get a messagebox each time it goes through the loop. I have 5 people in this DL so I get one match and 4 that do not match. For my life I cannot think of a way to loop through each member of this DL and only display the messagebox once, when it finds or doesn't find the email address.

Any ideas are appreciated...

Sean

prashanthd

Try the following.

$Member = Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $DL_Selection | select PrimarySmtpAddress
$members=""

foreach($Address in $Member){
      if ($Address.PrimarySmtpAddress -match $eMail_Address){
            #[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("You ARE a member of this Distribution Group.")
			$members=$members + $Address.PrimarySmtpAddress + " - Member `n"			
      }
      else {
            #[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("You are NOT a member of this Distribution Group.")
			$members=$members + $Address.PrimarySmtpAddress + " - Not Member `n"
      }
}

	$members
    [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show($members)

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exsuprt

ASKER

The result ends up being a list of everyone in the DL and if I am a member of the DL it says I am a member and everyone else is not and if I am not a member I am not in the list (obviously) but everyone is listed as 'Not Member'. I understand why it is doing it like this since there is only one email address being compared to a list of addresses on the DL.

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