Update VA Powershell

1. You don't need the '-IncludedProperties 'Attribute1' '.  This is only needed on "Get"

2. For the Identity, I have gotten into the habit of explicitly casting to string - not strictly necessary coming from a file, but it just saves me headaches in general.

-Identity [string]$_.UserName

3.  Though probably functionally the same as what you are doing I would handle your URL property like this:

-ObjectAttributes @{"Attribute1"=$([string]$_.Url)}

Re 2 and 3, it's a bit of a belt and suspenders / braces approach but that's how I roll.

Hi. 

Thanks. You learn something new every day. I have changed the code to below based on your suggestions. 

#Set Runtime Parameters

$CSVImport = "C:\CSVFILE.csv"

Connect-QADService -Service "ARS-SERVER-NAMEt" -Proxy
Import-Csv $CSVImport | ForEach-Object {
Set-QADUser -Identity [string]$_.UserName -ObjectAttributes @{"Attribute1"=$([string]$_.Url)}
}

The error message is 

DefaultNamingContext Type
-------------------- ----
CN=Active Directory ARS
Set-QADUser :
At line:6 char:5
+ Set-QADUser -Identity [string]$_.UserName -ObjectAttributes @{"Att ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-QADUser], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,ActiveRoles.ManagementShell.Powershell.Cmdlets.SetUserCmdlet

That's a weird error.

What format is the username?  SamAccountName?  DistinguishedName?  Userprincipalname?

So for this script i am having to use UPN 

$CSVImport = "C:\CSVFILE.csv"

Connect-QADService -Service "ARS-SERVER-NAMEt" -Proxy
Import-Csv $CSVImport | ForEach-Object {

$CurrentUser = [string]$_.UserName
$AttributeContents = [string]$_.Url

$TargetUser = Get-QADUser -LdapFilter "(userprincipalname=$CurrentUser)" | select -expandproperty DN

Set-QADUser -Identity $TargetUser -ObjectAttributes @{"Attribute1"=$AttributeContents}
}

Thanks Johnny. So that's worked and again you learn something new everyday so thanks for that. A new way of achieving something.

I do have one issue but i think it more to do with the original CSV output that needs some tidying up.  

Appreciate your help

You are most welcome.  FYI, the Get could also be implemented thus:

$TargetUser = Get-QADUser -UserPrincipalName $CurrentUser | select -expandproperty DN

...but I think my original might be slightly faster.

You are most welcome.  FYI, the Get could also be implemented thus:

$TargetUser = Get-QADUser -UserPrincipalName $CurrentUser | select -expandproperty DN

...but I think my original might be slightly faster.