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Patrik Persson
Patrik Persson

Reputation: 193

New-Mailbox command does not accept the -Equipment argument

I'm attempting to create new resources in Exchange Online via a script and it works if I type the line manually but when I run the script, the command New-Mailbox suddenly can't accept the "-Equipment" argument.

Script fails on the following row:

New-Mailbox -Name "$($Resource)" -$($Type)

Error shows following: 

A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '-Equipment'.
 + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-Mailbox], ParameterBindingException"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 441

Answers (1)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174545

PowerShell interprets -$($Type) as a string argument rather than a parameter name. Use splatting to conditionally pass parameters like this:

$extraParams = @{ $Type = $true }
New-Mailbox -Name "$($Resource)" @extraParams

I'm not sure which other types of mailboxes are available in Exchange Online, but you'll probably want to figure that out and apply some input validation:

param(
    [string]$Resource,

    [ValidateSet('Equipment','Person','Room')]
    [string]$Type
)

# do other stuff here

# If someone passed a wrong kind of `$Type`, the script would have already thrown an error
$extraParams = @{ $Type = $true }
New-Mailbox -Name "$($Resource)" @extraParams

Upvotes: 2

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