I am writing a script to create accounts and contacts in AD. Each account gets a contact as well, but I want to create the contact first and then the account. I am using the comlet New QADObject to create the contact, but I am receiving the following error:

Missing expression after unary operator '-'.
At E:\scripts\CreateStudentAccounts.ps1:39 char:11
+          -O <<<< bjectAttributes @{givenName=$_.FirstName;

This is the command I am using:

New-QADObject -ParentContainer $Contact_OU -Type Contact -ObjectAttributes @{givenName=$_.FirstName; sn=$_.LastName; cn=$_.DisplayName; displayName=$_.DisplayName; mail=$_.EmailAddress; mailNickname=$_.Name; title=$_.Title; company=$_.Company; targetAddress='SMTP:'+$_.EmailAddress} -WhatIf

I don't see a problem. Any thoughts? Thanks.

By the way, the contact is mail enabled. Their account will be mail enabled as well and we setup a forwarding to their contact email address.

Bit late, I know.

Two things
1. You're missing the -Name parameter. This will set the common name (cn) for the object.
2. You cannot use -ObjectAttributes paremeter to set the cn. This is why we have the rename-qadobject cmdlet.