strip domain off mail attribute to use as another attribute

Question

Within Property Patterns, I need a way to fill in 'User Logon Name' with the contents of the mail field only up until the @ sign. The requirement is due to the need to create Shared Mailboxes in Adaxes, and we only want the technicians to fill in a Display Name and an email address

Example:

Tech clicks on web interface button to create a new shared mailbox, they only see Display Name and Email as the two fields. Lets say they enter the following:

Display Name: Accounts Receivable Mailbox
Email: accountsreceivable@company.com

I would like to, via a Property Pattern, have it populate the User Logon Name field with 'accountsreceivable'.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

In a powershell command you can use split to break a text.

Example;
$Email = 'accountsreceivable@company.com'
$Email.split('@')[0] returns accountsreceivable

Comments

works great, thank you! I was hoping to do this without having to do a 'before creation' powershell script, but this ended up working just fine. Much appreciated!