Vista - exchange - disable-mailuser

Add-PsSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin

$dn = get-qaduser <samaccountname?| foreach {$_.dn}
Disable-MailUser -Identity $dn

Error : Disable-MailUser : "microsoft.com/ou1/test123 is not a mail-enabled
user.


Looks like disable-mailuser expects a string in this format
"microsoft.com/ou1/test123"

Is there a way that make Disable-MailUser -Identity <samaccountname > ?

Hello IT,
Disable-MailUser DOES work with a samaccountname. You aren't giving it a
samaccount name.

Since you know the samaccount name, you can skip the quest stuff and do:

Disable-MailUser -Identity <samaccountname>

Karl

It looks like if found the user, but they just weren't mail-enabled. If it
can't resolve the name at all you get an error about "object <identity>
could not be found on domain controller.

"IT Staff" wrote:

This is how i test it.

a) Powershell 1.0 on XP, with Exhcnage shell console installed. Created a
ps1 script and run using domain admin

Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Support
Disable-MailUser -Identity <samaccountname>

==> error

b) Run direct from Exchange shell console with domain admin.
Disable-MailUser -Identity <samaccountname>

==> works and no error.

How do i run from script instead of running interactively from (b)

Hello IT,
What is the error this time?

Karl

managed to resolve it