Comments on: Creating Groups in the FIM Portal using powershell

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:29:01 +0000

Great worked fine Carol…appreciate the prompt response…:)

Just one more thing…i want the “email enabled” box ticked…i put the following line into the set attribute…dosent seem to like it much? Any thoughts?

SetAttribute -object $newGroup -attributeName “EmailEnabling” -attributeValue $true

My end goal is to have mail enabled security groups…does the “email enabled” box need to be ticked even if ive already synced a group mail address across? Im assuming it does so the email become a routable address within exchange? I will put an alias in as well because i think it is a required field once the mail enabled box is ticked.

Stu

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:04:11 +0000

I think your problem may be missing underscores. When referring to a variable taken from the csv you have to write it like “$_.Email”.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:49:56 +0000

Thanks carol

Ive added the following to the following section:

# Create group and add attributes
$newGroup = CreateObject -objectType “Group”

I added:

SetAttribute -object $newGroup -attributeName “Email” -attributeValue $Email
SetAttribute -object $newGroup -attributeName “MailNickname” -attributeValue $MailNickname

and also put values in the csv for them…stil no joy?
I got the following output…seems like the 2 new fields arent getting there value?:

PS C:\import> powershell c:\import\Groupimport.ps1
Email
MailNickname
DisplayName test
AccountName test
Domain FIM
Scope Global
Type Security
Filter /P
erson[(DepartmentMultiple = 'ADMIN')]
Description test csv with email fields
Owner 7fb2b853-24f0-4498-9534-4e10589723c4
DisplayedOwner 7fb2b853-24f0-4498-9534-4e10589723c4
MembershipLocked True
MembershipAddWorkflow None

SourceObjectIdentifier : c56586a8-3672-44b5-8894-3816846b1ac3
TargetObjectIdentifier :
ObjectType : Group
State : Create
Changes : {Email, MailNickname, DisplayName, AccountName…}
AnchorPairs :

Import-FIMConfig : Failure when making web service call.
SourceObjectID = c56586a8-3672-44b5-8894-3816846b1ac3
Error = Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Faults.ServiceFaultException: The request message contains errors that
prevent processing the request.
at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Client.ResourceTemplate.CreateResource()
at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.ResourceManager.CreateResource()
at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Automation.ImportConfig.Create(String objectType, List`1 changeList)
at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Automation.ImportConfig.EndProcessing()
At C:\import\Groupimport.ps1:80 char:29
+ $newGroup | Import-FIMConfig <<<< -uri $URI

Group creation request complete

cheers
stu

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:28:50 +0000

All you need to do is populate the Email and MailNickname attributes as well.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:00:56 +0000

Hi,

Im just wondering, i would like to run your script above but also make it produce “mail enabled secuirty groups” with email alias… im not fluent in powershell scripting so can you let me know how i would add these additional variables to the script?

stu