Get-ADuser in a function

by dafinch at 2012-10-17 04:46:34

I’m fairly new to powershell and i’m trying to learn how to put together a function with parameters. The parameters seem to be working correctly but i’m having an issue with the actual Get-ADuser. If I try my example below the Get-ADuser works outside of the function but it doesnt inside the function. I’ve verified that the $ADGroupName contains the name of the group i’m passing into the function. But the get-adgroup inside the function returns nothing.

I’ve got powershell v3 installed. Any help on this would be appreciated.


Import-Module activedirectory
Function Show-GroupMembers {
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
[string]$ADGroupName
)

$ADGroupName
get-adgroup -filter {name -like $ADGroupName}
}

$ADGroupName = "testgroup"

Show-GroupMembers $ADGroupName

get-adgroup -filter {name -like $ADGroupName}
#^–this works
by DonJ at 2012-10-17 08:23:55
Couple things. If you’re going to use [Parameter()], add [CmdletBinding()] prior to your Param block:


[CmdletBinding()]
Param()


Your other problem is that you’ve declared $ADGroupName as an array; the -filter parameter doesn’t want an array. You can’t use -like against an array, either. Inside your function, you’d need to enumerate through that array and deal with just one array item at a time.
by dafinch at 2012-10-17 09:51:45
Thanks! That fixed it. Once I put my Get-ADGroup in a foreach it worked perfectly.

Thanks again