Hello,

I have the following:

$user = Get-QADUser 'Username - morehere"
$user.targetAddress -match "\s"

It returns false...

However the target address is:

smtp:username - morehere@remainderaddresshere.com

Does anyone understand why this is happening?

Many Thanks

James

Hi James,
What do you get for $user.targetAddress?

-Chris

Hello,

I have done a write-Host $user.targetaddress if thats what you mean.

It returns a blank line. However the attribute is set and I can see it.

Many Thanks

James

James,

Well it looks like your targetAddress attribute doesn't contain any data. When you say the attribute is set and you can see it; what are you referring to? Are you looking at the attribute via ADUC or ADSI? In other words, what application are you using that shows that the targetAddress attribute has data?

Additionally, what Exchange system are you using. targetAddress is only used on mail-enabled user accounts and contacts with Exchange 2003 and typically points to an external email address. As a matter of fact ADUC doesn't even expose the targetAddress attribute with Exchange 2003 mailbox-enabled users; the only way to get to it is via ADSI or programmatically. For normal Exchange 2003 mailbox-enabled user accounts the mail attribute should be used. If you are working with contacts you should use get-qadobject cmdlet.

I can't speak to Exchange 2007 or 2010 as I'm not using them at present so this may be a mute point.

One other point: When I run get-qaduser against my domain:

$me = get-qaduser myusername -includeallproperties -credential $admincreds

then:

$me | get-member

targetAddress is a noteproperty and its definition is

targetAddress = null

I don't think that Quest is using the targetAddress attribute in the get-qaduser cmdlet because they are setting it to null when you run the command.

Maybe one of the Quest guys could shed more light on that.

Hello,

I am using ADUC to see the target address attribute.

Yes thats correct were running exchange 2007 and we are pointing the target address to microsoft for accounts and mail.

Quite possibly.

However I have used the following command:

Set-QADUser -Identity $_.Name -ObjectAttributes @{TargetAddress=$TargetAddress}

To set the target address initially on the entire domain of students and this works fine. The problem comes when I try and remove a space from it or even match a space as the case maybe.

Does this make any sense?

Many Thanks

James

Can anyone assist with this?

Many Thanks

James