Try/Catch
Wright, John M
I have a bit of code like this. It works to look up user accounts across three domains in the same forest. Everything succeeds except a lookup of an account in the root domain in the second Catch.
Can anyone tell why this fails?
try {
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Domain1.Root.Com | select name
} catch [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException] {
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Domain2.Root.Com | select name
} catch {
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Root.com | select name
}
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John Wright
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Michael B. Smith
I suspect what you have written there isn’t quite what you mean. I think you mean something like this (reformatted for my readability 😊):
try
{
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Domain1.Root.Com -EA Stop | select name
}
catch [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException]
{
try
{
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Domain2.Root.Com -EA Stop | select name
}
catch [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException]
{
Get-ADUser $DH -Server Root.com -EA 0 | select name
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Wright, John M
That did it. Thanks very much. I don’t often use Try-Catch and clearly need to brush up.
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