It is indeed an error, and has been bugged. The work around:
$saveEAP = $ErrorActionPreference
$ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit .......
$cmdResult = $?
$ErrorActionPreference = $saveEAP
## now test $cmdResult as you may have tested $? In the past.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 6:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Powershell help
Probably more to do with my inexperience;
Get-Content acts like the parameters suggest for -ea 0|3.
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit bails out in a display of glorious red no matter how
you attempt to deal with it if the OU doesn't exist.
jlc
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 6:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Powershell help
I'd like to know which cmdlets (from Microsoft) don't work as expected with EA.
<CommonParameters> are implemented by PowerShell itself, not the individual
cmdlet.
Now, whether something works with try/catch/finally or not gets quite weird,
and has to do with the difference between terminating and non-terminating
errors.
Regardless, I'm glad you got it to work. :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Powershell help
Unfortunately, not all cmdlets work as expected with ea. Some ignore the stop
or inquire params.
I simply rethought how the should be done and the script works as expected.
Thanks,
jlc
-----Original Message-----
From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 8:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Powershell help
Try adding -ea 0 to the end of your stmt. ea means ErrorAction. Google that.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.com
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From: Joseph L. Casale [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 8:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Powershell help
Guys,
I am sure the answer here is simple, but what's an elegant way to handle the
case where I need to test if an OU exists:
Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity "ou=$someOU,$root"
and mask the error and simply bail or proceed on with my script.
Using try/catch and if/! I am not crafting an elegant way to simply halt
without producing error...
Thanks!
jlc
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