Suppress error messages for WMI classes

Hi All,
End user of my script may have two accounts [Exchange(User_ex) and Lync(User_sup)]. When he configured his local PS profile only for exchange (user_ex) and trying to get logical disk info of Lync server(which needs User_sup) then my script suppress error messages for WMI classes, especially for AccessDenied errors.

I tried by setting the global PS profile variable $ErrorActionPreference=”SilentlyContinue” which was worked but I don’t want to use this as this is not a best practice of coding.

Both Exchange and Lync are in the same domain


PS C:> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName hzwas251 -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction “SilentlyContinue”

Get-WmiObject : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
At line:1 char:14

  • Get-WmiObject <<<< -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName hzwas251 -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue"
    • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:slight_smile: [Get-WmiObject], UnauthorizedAccessException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

Hi,

You should use try catch block to catch the errors and handle it as you wish. Go through the free ebook “The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling” available under https://powershell.org/ebooks/ which was written by Dave Wyatt. It’s a great resource to understand the error handling.

This may be the solution for your problem described here.

try
{
    Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -ComputerName hzwas251 -ErrorVariable Err -ErrorAction Stop
}
catch
{
   write-output "Access denied for User_ex"
}

Be aware that other errors can occur, for instance you may not be able to make a DCOM connection to a remote connection, and if you have a generic catch you’ll get the access denied message even if that isn’t the error. Either have multiple catch statements OR pass the specific error as part of the message output from the catch