Hydration. Remote PowerShell (EMS) gives you fully hydrated objects. PsSessipns do not. This is the cost of not installing the management tools.
Not a silly question. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Sean Martin<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 12/5/2014 1:12 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Exchange] PowerShell Help Interesting. I apologize if this is a stupid question, but in regards to the original code I was attempting to use, what is different in the way it is processed using the Exchange Management Shell vs. when I create a session to an Exchange server from PowerShell? I was able to use the following code from EMS and do an add or subtract just by toggling the operand $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += $HostIPConv Set-ReceiveConnector $recvConn -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges The $HostIPConv variable stores a single IP address. - Sean On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: You can’t do it that way, for a subtraction. You must use either the Remove() or RemoveAt() methods, on the RemoteIpRanges result. How, precisely, to do it is going to be dependent on the exact format of the $HostIPConv variable. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Friday, December 5, 2014 2:13 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Exchange] PowerShell Help So that works when adding an IP address (thank you!), however, I receive the following when attempting to remove an IP address (using -=): Method invocation failed because [System.Collections.ArrayList] doesn't contain a method named 'op_Subtraction'. At J:\MIS Technical Support\Distributed\Continuity\Continuity Binders\Scripting \Exchange 2010\SMTPRelay\DoNotExecute\RemoveFromRelayList.ps1:92 char:29 + $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges -= <<<< $HostIPConv + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (op_Subtraction:String) [], Ru ntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound - Sean On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hmmmm. Willing to try something else? Try this… $RecvConns = Get-ReceiveConnector | where {$_.name -eq "SMTP Relay Connector"} forEach ($recvConn in $recvConns) { Write-Host "Updating", $recvConn.Identity $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += $HostIPConv $recvConn.Guid.ToString() | Set-ReceiveConnector -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges } From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 6:13 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Exchange] PowerShell Help Thanks for the tip on the operator, that does make better sense. Unfortunately I'm still encountering a similar issue: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert the "b1645fd1-31c2-46f0-9df6-36cb7285303b" value of type "System.Guid" to type "Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ReceiveConnectorIdParameter". + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Set-ReceiveConnector], Paramet erBindin...mationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Set-Receive Connector On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This should sort it. As an aside, you should probably be using “-eq” instead of “-match”, if only one connector is supposed to match. $RecvConns = Get-ReceiveConnector | where {$_.name -match "SMTP Relay Connector"} forEach ($recvConn in $recvConns) { Write-Host "Updating", $recvConn.Identity $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += $HostIPConv Set-ReceiveConnector –Identity $recvConn.Guid -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges } From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Sean Martin Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] PowerShell Help Good morning/afternoon, I need a little assistance with a PS script I'm putting together. Just to let it be known, scripting is not my strong suit. I'm putting together a powershell script for Junior admins to quickly and efficiently add or remove IP addresses to a relay connector we have on our Exchange servers. The entire script accepts input from the user, does some connectivity checks, dns checks, etc. but the primary function is to gather the input and simply run the set-receiveconnector cmdlet with the updated IP list. When I execute the script from the Exchange Management shell, it works perfectly. However, I would like the admins to be able to execute the script quickly and easily, and potentially from a PC that doesn't have the EMS installed. Here's the code that works when the script is executed from the EMS: ================================================================ $RecvConns = Get-ReceiveConnector | where {$_.name -match "SMTP Relay Connector"} forEach ($recvConn in $recvConns) { Write-Host "Updating", $recvConn.Identity $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges += $HostIPConv Set-ReceiveConnector $recvConn -RemoteIPRanges $RecvConn.RemoteIPRanges } ================================================================ However, if I add the logic to import a PSsession so the user can simply right-click and execute in powershell: ================================================================ $ExchSrvr = "server1","server2","server3" | Where {Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Count 1 -Quiet} | Get-Random $ExchSess = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri ("http://{0}.<domain>/PowerShell<http://%7b0%7d.%3cdomain%3e/PowerShell>" -f $exchsrvr) Import-PSSession $ExchSess ================================================================ I receive this error when the script attemps to set-receiveconnector: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert the "<servername>\SMTP Relay Connector" value of type "Deserialized.Microsoft.Exchan ge.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.ReceiveConnector" to type "Microsoft.Exch ange.Configuration.Tasks.ReceiveConnectorIdParameter". + CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Set-ReceiveConnector], Paramet erBindin...mationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Set-Receive Connector I'm having a hard time tracking this issue down. Please note I removed references to actual server names and domains. The actual script is in the proper syntax. Appreciate any help anyone can provide. - Sean
