Get-ADUser Syntax problems...

Question

Hey,

can someone tell me how i can manage to get this line of code working ?
Problem is that $x is not seen/accepted as variable....

$usn = (Get-ADUser -Filter {EmailAddress -eq "$x"} -Properties * -SearchBase "dc=xyz" -Server xyz.i:123 | Select *).SamAccountName

the position of $x must be a variable, but somehow it's not reading it as a variable and i got no output...

Answer 1

After Scraping the Internet for a day i found a solution that works..

$usn = (Get-ADUser -Filter "EmailAddress -eq '$x'" -Properties * -SearchBase "dc=xyz" -Server xyz.i:123 | Select *).SamAccountName

thanks anyway :)

Best regards,

TheLionFox

Answer 2

Hi,

If curly braces are used to enclose the filter, the variable should not be quoted

$usn = (Get-ADUser -Filter {EmailAddress -eq $x} -Properties * -SearchBase "dc=xyz" -Server xyz.i:123 | Select *).SamAccountName  

Best Regards，
Ian Xue

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