Update Custom Attributes using ADSI

Question

I am trying to do a bulk update of a few custom properties that I added. I read this article Custom Properties in Search & PowerShell?. But I am not able to retrieve the custom attributes.
e.g.,
user.Get("adm-CustomAttributeText1") throws an unhandled exception: Adaxes.Adsi.DirectoryComException: the 'adm-CustomAttributeText1' property cannot be found in the cache.

I am able to get other AD properties using the Get, e.g, user.Get("samAccountName") works

Answer 1

Hello,

The Get method of the IADs interface raises such an exception when the property is empty (not set for the directory object). That is why it is usually recommended to call the method using a try...catch block, for example:

try
{
     $myValue = $user.Get("adm-CustomAttributeText1")
}
catch
{
     # TODO: code for handling situations when the property is empty
}

Comments

Perfect, works fine after I updated the value using Put!