need assistance with a powershell script

siber1
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hello, can someone provide a way that I can add logic to this script to add in a list of room mailboxes from an input txt file.


here is the current script that works against a single room, we would like to add logic so that this runs against the list on an input txt file:

$internalmessage = get-content internalmessage.txt
$externalmessage = get-content externalmessage.txt

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration test-roombooking -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage "$internalmessage" -ExternalMessage "$externalmessage"

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thx in advance.
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It depends.  If you want your internal and external messages customized for each room.  If the messages are to remain the same you can just pipe in the rooms from a get-content

Get-Content Rooms.txt | Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration ...

Now if you want customization I would put a replaceable string in your internal/external message files.  I usually do something like %room% then loop through the rooms replacing that string in each command you run something like:

$internalmessage = get-content internalmessage.txt
$externalmessage = get-content externalmessage.txt
$Rooms = Get-Content Rooms.txt

ForEach($Room in $Rooms)
{
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration $Room -AutoReplyState enabled `
	-ExternalAudience all `
	-InternalMessage $internalmessage.Replace("%room%",$room) `
	-ExternalMessage $externalmessage.Replace("%room%",$room)
}

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You can do a lot more with this.  In particular you can setup your inputs differently.  Perhaps a CSV file containing all the settings you want for a particular room.  Or even a hash table with the settings.  So let me know if I don't have this right.
siber1

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Commented:
hi nashiooka, thanks for the code suggestion, I tried the code you provided but the room mailboxes are not being updated. can you let me know if the variables need to be adjusted?  thx
nashiooka

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Are you getting an error?  How did you format the rooms.txt file?  You should have one room per line.  Also make sure your Internal & External message files are one long like, otherwise the vars will be array and the replace method won't be available.

Let me know.
siber1

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Commented:
hi Nashiooka,  its working now, the script was perfect, It was a mistake on my end.  thx again!
siber1

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excellent, just what I was looking for.  thx

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