Question

I am not very familiar with powershell scripting and I’m stuck on this problem –
I need to make some operations on object retrieved like this:

$object = [ADSI]'LDAP://CN=Test User,OU=Dept,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=org'
...
$object.Commit()

this works fine, but I have to use distinguished name stored in variable – my test script looks like this, but its not working:

$object = [ADSI]'LDAP://$variable'
...
$object.Commit()

the first call to [ADSI] itself doesn’t cause error, but any following operation crashes with message:

The following exception occurred while retrieving member "commit": "The server is not operational.
"
At line:1 char:10
+ $object.commit <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], ExtendedTypeSystemException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CatchFromBaseGetMember

I’m pretty sure, that the parameter is sent in some wrong way, but I don’t know, how to fix it, can anybody help?

tahnks

Answer 1

Try:

$object = [ADSI]"LDAP://$variable"

Single quotes don’t expand variables.