CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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holian
holian

Reputation: 755

Powershell iteration to delete contacts

I would like to make an iteration which automatically deletes all contacts from Outlook.

This first row makes the collection:

$olSession = (New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application).Session
$olSession.Logon('Outlook')
$contactsFolder = 10
$elemek = $olSession.GetDefaultFolder($contactsFolder).Items

I can delete one item, if I know the name:

 $deleteone = $elemek | Where-Object {$_.FullName -eq "Your Name"}
 $deleteone.Delete()

But I would like to delete all contacts automatically, so I get the number of elements in $elemek with $elemek.Count.

I don't know how to get the value of the array "dynamically":

for ($i=0; $i -le $elemek.Count; $i++)
{
    # The following line is not working
    $elemek.Count[0].Delete()
}

Could you help me to fix the iteration?

Thank you.

Addition:

If i run this:

 $elemek | Format-Table FullName,MobileTelephoneNumber,Email1Address

I got this:

FullName      MobileTelephoneNumber       Email1Address
--------      ---------------------       -------------
Morgan Freeman                            /o=Mydomain/ou=Exchange Administrativ...                            
Johny English                             /o=Mydomain/ou=Exchange Administrativ...

So i really need to got FullName from $elemek and use in the script block of the for itaration.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 590

Answers (2)

user4003407
user4003407

Reputation: 22132

Just use ForEach-Object, but preread content of $elemek before deleting:

@($elemek)|ForEach-Object {$_.Delete()}

Upvotes: 1

Loïc MICHEL
Loïc MICHEL

Reputation: 26170

the exception could be raised if $elemk contains null value, try this : ...

$ErrorActionPreference="stop"
 $elemek = $olSession.GetDefaultFolder($contactsFolder).Items 
try{

    $elemk |%{ if ($_) { $_.delete() } }
}
catch{
"error occured :" 
$_
}

Upvotes: 0

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