Add AD Windows Group via PowerShell

So I'm trying to create a powershell script to add Active Directory Groups via SWIS PowerShell script.

This is where I've got to and it's failing on the ConvertFrom-Json;

$settings = Get-Content "$PSScriptRoot\Settings.json" -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json

$swis = Connect-Swis -Host "1.1.1.1" -UserName "AD_USER_ACCOUNT" -Password "MYPWD"

$ADGroup = Invoke-SwisVerb $swis Orion.Accounts.CreateWindowsAccount @($settings.accountType, $settings.userOrGroupName, $settings.adminUser, $settings.adminPassword)

{
"accountType" : "3",
"userOrGroupName" : "DOMAIN\ADUSER",
"adminUser" : "ADMINUSER",
"adminPassword" : ADMINPWD"
}

ConvertFrom-Json : Unrecognised escape sequence. (149): { ......

Can anybody help me please?

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KMSigma.SWI

What version of PowerShell are you running?

$PSVersionTable

SW_United

PSVersion 5.1.17763.2268

BuildVersion 10.0.17763.2268

KMSigma.SWI

Your JSON looks malformed.

On the adminPassword line, it's missing a quote and backslashes need to be escaped.

This would be the proper format:

{
    "accountType": "3",
    "userOrGroupName": "DOMAIN\\ADUSER",
    "adminUser": "ADMINUSER",
    "adminPassword": "ADMINPWD"
}

If you can't run the first line in your script, then the problem is the JSON syntax.

SW_United

OK so tried this and yep still not working, but getting different error. I saved as UTF-8 encoding.

New error;

Invoke-SwisVerb : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String' required by the parameter 'Verb'.

Specified method is not supported.

At C:\blahblah\script.ps1:5 char:70

+ ... dowsAccount @($settings.accountType, $settings.userOrGroupName, $sett ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Invoke-SwisVerb], ParameterBindingExecption

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,SwisPowerShell.InvokeSwisVerb