Unable to catch the error

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I am trying to query a user and was hoping to build a csv file for those that I can and cannot get. I'm not really sure why.&nbsp;&nbsp;users = import-csv ".\OU.csv" -Delimiter ";"
    foreach ($user in $users) {
    $O365user = Get-ADUser -SearchBase $user.ou -Properties * -Filter * | ? {$_.admindescription -eq $null -and $_.emailaddress -ne $null} | select EmailAddress,SamaccountName
                              }
    foreach ($User in $O365user){ 
   try {
        $dUser = Get-mailbox $user.emailaddress -ErrorAction Stop
    }
    catch {
        if ($_ -like "*The operation couldn't be performed because object*") {
            "User '$u' does not exist."
        }
        else {
            "An error occurred: $_"
        }
        continue
    }
    "User '$($user.displayname)' exists."
    # Do stuff with $ADUser

}&nbsp;&nbsp;

cimpercee · Answer

I will try your suggestion, thanks

varun_ghildiyal · Answer

It looks like you're trying to query a list of users from a CSV file and then check if they have an Office 365 mailbox. The script seems to be missing the part where you write the results to a CSV file.

To write the results to a CSV file, you can use the Export-CSV cmdlet. Here's an updated version of your script that writes the results to a CSV file:

$users = import-csv ".\OU.csv" -Delimiter ";"
$results = @()
foreach ($user in $users) {
$O365user = Get-ADUser -SearchBase $user.ou -Properties * -Filter * | ? {$_.admindescription -eq $null -and $_.emailaddress -ne $null} | select EmailAddress,SamaccountName
foreach ($User in $O365user){
try {
$dUser = Get-mailbox $user.emailaddress -ErrorAction Stop
$result = [PSCustomObject]@{
DisplayName = $user.displayname
EmailAddress = $user.emailaddress
Status = "Exists"
}
$results += $result
}
catch {
if ($_ -like "*The operation couldn't be performed because object*") {
$result = [PSCustomObject]@{
DisplayName = $user.displayname
EmailAddress = $user.emailaddress
Status = "Does not exist"
}
$results += $result
}
else {
"An error occurred: $_"
}
continue
}
}
}
$results | Export-Csv -Path ".\Results.csv" -NoTypeInformation

This script creates an empty array $results and then adds a custom object to it for each user that is found. The custom object contains the user's display name, email address, and status (either "Exists" or "Does not exist").

At the end of the script, the results are exported to a CSV file using the Export-Csv cmdlet. The -NoTypeInformation parameter is used to exclude the object type information from the CSV file.

harm_veenstra · Answer

cimpercee&nbsp;I think this should work:&nbsp;users = import-csv ".\OU.csv" -Delimiter ";"
    foreach ($user in $users) {
    $O365user = Get-ADUser -SearchBase $user.ou -Properties * -Filter * | ? {$_.admindescription -eq $null -and $_.emailaddress -ne $null} | select EmailAddress,SamaccountName
                              }
    foreach ($User in $O365user){ 
   try {
        $dUser = Get-mailbox $user.emailaddress -ErrorAction Stop
        $dUser | export-csv -path c:\data\users.csv -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter ';' -Encoding UTF8 -Append 
    }
    catch {
            "User '$u' does not exist."
}&nbsp;If the user can be found, it exports the data to a CSV file and appends it for every user. It the user can't be found, it will just write that it can't be found and continue processing

cimpercee · Answer

I did cut the rest of the code because for this query, I can't even catch the error. thanks. I will try your suggestion

harm_veenstra · Answer

Let us know if it works out!

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