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An &nbsp;hour of ripping my hair out. Stupid DOTs !!<br />
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Gracefully hands over the 500.<br />
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Thanks Neilsr
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An  hour of ripping my hair out. Stupid DOTs !!

Gracefully hands over the 500.

Thanks Neilsr

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Your welcome. Easily done, I have no hair left now due to such stupid mistakes :P<br />

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Your welcome. Easily done, I have no hair left now due to such stupid mistakes :P


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lol. Sorry 1 more thing..<br />
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If my title column had a space in it. Is it as simple as $_.&quot;Spaced Name&quot; ?
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lol. Sorry 1 more thing..

If my title column had a space in it. Is it as simple as $_."Spaced Name" ?

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I am trying to create set of AD groups from a csv file<br />
It should be straight forward but I am going wrong somewhere. <br />
Can someone point me in the right direction.<br />
<br />
I run this ps command <br />
import-csv c:\admin\newgroups.csv | foreach {new-adgroup -Name $_Name -Description $_Description -GroupCategory Security -groupscope Global -Path &quot;OU=Security Groups,dc=company,dc=com&quot;}<wbr /><br />
<br />
MY CSV file contains<br />
<br />
Name,Description<br />
&quot;Index - ABC Offshore Ltd&quot;,&quot;ABC Offshore Ltd&quot;<br />
&quot;Index - DEF Inland&quot;,&quot;DEF Inland&quot;<br />
<br />
I get this error when run <br />
New-ADGroup : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Name'. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is n<br />
ot null or empty and then try the command again.<br />
At line:1 char:63<br />
<br />
If I use the command import-csv c:\admin\newgroups.csv it returns the table of csv contents ok.<br />

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I am trying to create set of AD groups from a csv file
It should be straight forward but I am going wrong somewhere. 
Can someone point me in the right direction.

I run this ps command 
import-csv c:\admin\newgroups.csv | foreach {new-adgroup -Name $_Name -Description $_Description -GroupCategory Security -groupscope Global -Path "OU=Security Groups,dc=company,dc=com"}

MY CSV file contains

Name,Description
"Index - ABC Offshore Ltd","ABC Offshore Ltd"
"Index - DEF Inland","DEF Inland"

I get this error when run 
New-ADGroup : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Name'. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is n
ot null or empty and then try the command again.
At line:1 char:63

If I use the command import-csv c:\admin\newgroups.csv it returns the table of csv contents ok.


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