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Add AD Windows Group via PowerShell

SW_United over 2 years ago

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 over 2 years ago in reply to SW_United +1

SWQL Studio If you aren't using SWQL Studio to test your queries, look at the data types, or understand the navigation properties, you are totally missing out. It's my go-to when I have questions.

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0 KMSigma.SWI over 2 years ago

What version of PowerShell are you running?

$PSVersionTable
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0 SW_United over 2 years ago in reply to KMSigma.SWI

PSVersion 5.1.17763.2268

BuildVersion 10.0.17763.2268
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0 KMSigma.SWI over 2 years ago in reply to SW_United
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.
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0 SW_United over 2 years ago in reply to KMSigma.SWI

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
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0 KMSigma.SWI over 2 years ago in reply to SW_United

Your settings shouldn't be in an array (indicated by the @(things) ) They should be sent individually (I still wrap mine in parenthesis, but this shouldn't be necessary).

I might to tag in someone who knows more about the accounting angle if converting from an array to individual elements doesn't fix it for you.
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0 SW_United over 2 years ago in reply to KMSigma.SWI

KMSigma.SWI What is this tool, looks cool?
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0 KMSigma.SWI over 2 years ago in reply to SW_United

SWQL Studio

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0 KMSigma.SWI over 2 years ago in reply to SW_United

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