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WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:31:18 GMT

Using the following statement

$aduser = "Get-ADUser -f {SamAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail | select-Object mail"

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $aduser ONLY returns the "Get-ADUser -f {SamAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail | select-Object mail"

Has anyone been able to get the return and assign it to a variable to work with in WFA?

THanks!!!!

Re: WFA Query AD

sinhaa — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:16:36 GMT

If you want the value of the attribute mail for the user, the below statement will work.

$aduser = Get-ADUser -Filter {samAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail |Select-Object "mail"

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $aduser.mail

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Your statement as below doesn't work, because you have declared it as a string. This has nothing to do with WFA, it will show similar result if executed with write-host on a powershell console.

$aduser = "Get-ADUser -f {SamAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail | select-Object mail"

Write-Host $aduser

sinhaa

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:38:15 GMT

Do you have a sample ?

Thank You,

John Marotta

USAA, Storage Management

913-2596

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:55:20 GMT

here is what got:

PS Y:\> $aduser = "Get-ADUser -f {SamAccountName -eq '12345'} -Properties mail | select-Object mail"

PS Y:\> Write-Host $aduser

Get-ADUser -f {SamAccountName -eq '12345'} -Properties mail | select-Object mail

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:20:19 GMT

just echos back the cmd but $aduser does not contain the data from the cmd.

Re: WFA Query AD

sinhaa — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 03:34:21 GMT

Of course, because you are trying the wrong command. I gave you the right one above ( in Green color ). Try that, it will work.

In powershell, anything withing double quotes will be treated as plain strings.

sinhaa

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:11:25 GMT

Thanks sinhaa, I tried the one you provided in WFA but got this:

$aduser = Get-ADUser -Filter {samAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail |Select-Object "mail"

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $aduser.mail

The term 'Get-ADUser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

This exact cmd does work within powershell and returns the email from the $user:

$aduser = Get-ADUser -Filter {samAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail |Select-Object mail

Thank You,

John Marotta

USAA, Storage Management

913-2596

Re: WFA Query AD

sinhaa — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:23:57 GMT

You need to Import the ActiveDirectory Module in your WFA command. Since it worked from PS console I assume you have ActiveDirectory PS modules available. Also since its on localhost, you don't need provide credentials.

Type the below in WFA command code to import the Module :

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Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$aduser = Get-ADUser -Filter {samAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail |Select-Object "mail"

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $aduser.mail

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sinhaa

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:27:01 GMT

Ok thanks again, tried

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$aduser = Get-ADUser -Filter {samAccountName -eq $user} -Properties mail |Select-Object "mail"

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $aduser.mail

But got this:

Cannot bind argument to parameter 'message' because it is null.

Thank You,

John Marotta

USAA, Storage Management

913-2596

Re: WFA Query AD

sinhaa — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:32:31 GMT

You got this because the $user you have provided has empty mail Attribute and hence the $aduser.mail is null. Does the user you have given has this attribute set? By default mail attributes are NOT set for AD users. To verify, On PS console print like: write-host $aduser.mail

Re: WFA Query AD

braashcj3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:39:37 GMT

Yes the xxxxx is my ID and from the PS console it returns my email

$aduser = Get-ADUser -f {samAccountName -eq 'xxxxx'} -Properties mail |Select-Object mail

mail

john.marotta@xxxx.xxx<mailto:john.marotta@xxxx.xxx>

Thank You,

John Marotta

USAA, Storage Management

913-2596

Re: WFA Query AD

sinhaa — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 13:52:03 GMT

John,

Post the screencap of your command and the failure message. Also the results from PS console. If you don't want to post here, send me via email at: sinhaa at netapp dot com