Exchange Management Shell Filter users based on an existing attribute

Question

In Exchange Management Shell I run these commands to try to set a couple of users remote powershell access to disabled:

$DSA = Get-User -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter "(RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Title -like 'Sales Associate')"

$DSA | foreach {Set-User -Identity $_ -RemotePowerShellEnabled $false}

After I input the 2nd command, I get this response from the shell:
cmdlet Set-User at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Identity:

I am not sure what I am supposed to do. I got the instructions from control-remote-powershell-access-to-exchange-servers and it does not mention this part.

Answer 1

You can't use the user object as the identity. You can, however, use a property of the user object:

$DSA | foreach {Set-User -Identity $_.distinguishedname -RemotePowerShellEnabled $false}  

Because you already have an array of user objects in the $DSA variable, using a pipeline is less efficient than using a simple "foreach" statement:

foreach ($u in $DSA){Set-User -Identity $u.distinguishedname -RemotePowerShellEnabled $false}  

If you prefer to use a pipeline (and avoid the overhead of creating an intermediate array just to one time), then this is better:

Get-User -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter "(RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Title -like 'Sales Associate')" |  
    foreach-object {Set-User -Identity $_.distinguishedname -RemotePowerShellEnabled $false}  

Answer 2

@Chris Martinez

Run command blow first, make sure it could find the correct users on your Exchange server:

$DSA = Get-User -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter "(RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Title -like '*Sales Associate*')"  
$DSA   

If there doesn't exist output, it means the filer that you used isn't correct. You need to modify the filter first.

Here is an example in my lab:

Please note, there exist * in the command. You also need to pay attention to the Space between the $_ and -RemotePowerShellEnabled.

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