Trying to create a mail-enabled group using a script

Question

I've got the following script as part of a larger piece where param-members is an AD Object picker list seperated by a ' ; ' currently:

New-DistributionGroup -Name 'U_Mailbox - %param-company% %param-mailbox-name%' -Alias '%param-mailbox-name%.group' -DisplayName 'U_Mailbox - $company %param-mailbox-name%' -OrganizationalUnit '%param-company%' -PrimarySMTPAddress '%param-mailbox-name%.group@%param-domain' -members '%param-members%'

The problem is that param-members provides the DN of the User object and I either need that to be in "" or convert that to username but I'm struggling to achieve that with multiple Users selected

Answer 1

Hello,

The parameter value is an array of distinguished names (DNs) separated by the value specified in the parameter settings. As a solution, you can iterate through the DNs, form the required list and then pass it to the -Members parameter. For an example on how to use parameter values in such a way, have a look at Script 1: Add temporary membership of the following article in our repository: https://www.adaxes.com/script-repository/temporary-group-membrship-s533.htm.

Also, to execute the New-DistributionGroup cmdlet, you will need to connect to Exchange. For details, see https://www.adaxes.com/script-repository/connect-to-exchange-with-powershell-s506.htm.