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update notes field in DL

Hi,

I have this code;

import-module activedirectory
GC C:\temp\group.txt | ?{$_}|%{
set-group -Notes "Created - 24/08/2014
Required - permanent
Owners - user1,user2”
}

Can you please correct this code so that it can see my txt file named as group.txt which contains list of my Distribution groups needs updating in Notes field.

I have tested this single line of code and it worked fine and now need to do over 100 of DLs.

Set-Group –identity G_test –Notes “For chess lovers!”

Steven Wells

Have oh tried the get-content method in power shell?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176843.aspx

It will be a bit easer to use

kuzum

ASKER

did iyou mean this

import-module activedirectory
GC C:\temp\group.txt | ?{$_}|%{ foreach-object {set-group -Notes "Created - 24/08/2014
Required - Permanent
Owners - user1, user2”
}
}

Steven Wells

What message do you get when you run what you have?

kuzum

ASKER

An empty pipe element is not allowed.
At line:2 char:33

Steven Wells

This should work
GC C:\temp\group.txt | % {Set-ADGroup $_ -replace @{info="Created - 24/08/2014"}}

Steven Wells

The above was run using powershell command Set-ADGroup rather than set-group. Not sure what server you are running this from.

kuzum

ASKER

thanks, running it on my windows 7 machine, also any reason why SEt-AD group? I did a test and works perfect?

Steven Wells

I did my test for you from a server 2008 domain controller. What ever works for you. There will be differences in the version of powershell modules

kuzum

ASKER

thanks, I have to run it on my windows 7 machine, but test it on DC 2008 and had the same error

Set-ADGroup : Cannot find an object with identity: 'XXXX' under: 'DC=mydomain,DC=domain,DC=com'.

Is there any way you amend my original code to work againts my txt file? Because I am not having any issues with that.
" @{info" is shown as "notes" field. are we sure about this? I could be wrong so apoligies in advanced

thanks

Steven Wells

Can you post the text file? It should just have the name of the group in list format. What happens if you run on the server?

Can you post the exact command you are running?

Steven Wells

My tests were done with a simple text file with a list of normal group names. Running the command from the active directory for powershell shortcut on a 2008 r2 server. The command was on one line. The @notes thing is needed as the noted field can't be directly accessed using the set Ad-group command. What version of exchange are you using too?

kuzum

ASKER

2010

Steven Wells

Ok. Same as me.

Steven Wells

This is what it looks like running on server.

Steven Wells

ok I know what you are doing now.

You are using the powershell for exchange.

In that case, this works

GC C:\temp\group.txt | Set-group -Notes "Created - 24/08/2014"

kuzum

ASKER

Ok thanks, I got it working on a single DL in my txt file but had issues for the whole list and it is because of the spaces in the list. can you please change this avoid space between DLs. they are listed as;

dl name1

dlname2 etc.

GC C:\temp\group.txt | ?{$_}%{Set-ADGroup $_ -replace @{info="Created - 23/07/2012
Required - Permanent
Owners - user1, user2"}}

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