So long story short. We have 9 domains in our org and when people transfer from department to department we are required to disable their old account and create a new one or sometimes we have contractors that become FTE's. Most of the time the department allows them to take their mail but because it's a new account I have to migrate the mailbox in the recycle bin to the new one under the new account. I have scripted this process and everything is working except when I try to catch and use the Exchange GUID in a variable. After I grab it, I do a Write-Host and it prints just fine but when it gets to New-MailboxRestoreRequest to use the GUID, I get the following:
I can copy and paste the output of the Write-Host in place of the variables and it works. I just don't want to have to do that every time.
Here is the script with identifying information stripped. Thanks in advance for the help.
#Connections
Connect-ExchangeOnline
$Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange –ConnectionUri http://exchangeServer/PowerShell/ -authentication Kerberos
Import-PSSession $Session -disablenamechecking
set-adserversettings -viewentireforest $true
#Set your variables
$upn='Jane.Doe'
$oldDomain='thisdomain.com'
$newDomain='thatdomain.com'
#Get Old and New GUIDS
$oldEmailGUID=get-exomailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox -UserPrincipalName $upn'@'$oldDomain -PropertySets all | select name,primarysmtpaddress,exchangeguid,legacy*,whencreated,whenchanged
Write-Host $oldEmailGUID.ExchangeGuid
$oldEmailGUID=$oldEmailGUID.ExchangeGuid
$newEmailGUID=get-exomailbox -UserPrincipalName $upn'@'$newDomain -PropertySets all | select name,primarysmtpaddress,exchangeguid,legacy*,whencreated,whenchanged
Write-Host $newEmailGUID.ExchangeGuid
$newEmailGUID=$newEmailGUID.ExchangeGuid
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
#Copy Old mailbox to New Mailbox
New-MailboxRestoreRequest -Name $upn -SourceMailbox $oldEmailGUID -TargetMailbox $newEmailGUID -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -CompletedRequestAgeLimit 7 -ConflictResolutionOption keepall –LargeItemLimit 5
#-BadItemLimit 2000
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
#Add X500 forwarding address **must first remove from old account through AD
#Get Old x500
$oldEmailX500=Get-exomailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox -UserPrincipalName $upn'@'$oldDomain -PropertySets all | select name,primarysmtpaddress,exchangeguid,legacy*,whencreated,whenchanged
Write-Host $oldEmailX500.LegacyExchangeDN
$fullX500ValueCheck='@{Add = X500:'+$oldEmailX500.LegacyExchangeDN+'}'
Write-Host $fullX500ValueCheck
#Add X500 forwarding address **must first remove from old account through AD
Set-remoteMailbox -Identity $upn'@'$newDomain -EmailAddresses @{Add = 'X500:'+$oldEmailX500.LegacyExchangeDN} -verbose
##### Show Restore Status ####
#get restore guid
$mailboxRestoreRequestStatsGUID=Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Name $upn
Write-host $mailboxRestoreRequestStatsGUID.RequestGuid
#Check Status **update guid from previous step
Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics -Identity $mailboxRestoreRequestStatsGUID.RequestGuid | select targetmailboxidentity,status,statusdetail,failuretype,message,estimatedtransfersize,bytestransferred,EstimatedTransferItemCount,itemstransferred,percentcomplete,*stalled*,overallduration
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