Mail-enable AD users using an interactive menu in Powershell
Hi Please help with the following code. Am making an interactive console to accept user input and mail-enable existing AD objects. Need to capture the UPN, email address and mailbox quota slab information from the heldpesk staff, and then create the mailbox. $Quota1_l = 80MB $Quota1_h = 100MB $Quota2_l = 180MB $Quota2_h = 200MB $Quota3_l = 280MB $Quota3_h = 300MB Write-Host `n $EmpNum = Read-Host "Enter Employee Number" $EmailInput = Read-Host "Enter email Address" #validate input email address function ValidateEmail{ param([string]$EmailInput) ($EmailInput -as [System.Net.Mail.MailAddress]).Address ` -eq $EmailInput -and $EmailInput -ne $null } $result1 = ValidateEmail($EmailInput) # this code needs to be corrected while ($result1 -ne $True) { Write-Host "Email Address is invalid!" `n $EmailInput2 = Read-Host "Enter email Address"; $result1 = validateEmail($EmailInput2); break} #end-correction Write-Host "`nMailbox Quota: `n`n[1] Regular User: 100MB`n[2] Critical User: 200MB`n[3] Management User: 300MB" -foregroundcolor "white" #Set Mailbox Quota Variables $QuotaInput = Read-Host "`nEnter your choice" if ($QuotaInput -eq 1) { $TempQuota_l = $Quota1_l; $TempQuota_h = $Quota1_h} elseif ($QuotaInput -eq 2) { $TempQuota_l = $Quota2_l; $TempQuota_h = $Quota2_h} elseif ($QuotaInput -eq 3) { $TempQuota_l = $Quota3_l; $TempQuota_h = $Quota3_h} else { Write-Host "Incorrect Choice Entered"; break } $EmpName = (Get-User -Identity $EmpNum).Name $EmpTitle = (Get-User -Identity $EmpNum).Title $yes = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&Yes","" $no = New-Object System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription "&No","" $choices = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]]($yes,$no) Write-Host "`nMailbox will be created as:" Write-Host "`nEmployee Name: $EmpName`nTitle: $EmpTitle`nEmployee Number: $EmpNum`nEmail Address: $EmailInput`nMailbox Quota Choice: $QuotaInput" $message2 = "`nDo you want to proceed" $result3 = $Host.UI.PromptForChoice($caption,$message2,$choices,0) if($result3 -eq 0) { #create mailbox script here - code not complete deliberately Write-Host "`nMailbox Created Successfully! `n" } if($result3 -eq 1) { Write-Host `n"No Action Taken!" `n }
June 27th, 2011 11:17am

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