Powershell Active Directory Attributes Creating User

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My code:

New-ADUser -samaccountname first_last -Name "first last" -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -AccountPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText "p@ssw0rd" -Force) -Enabled $true -PasswordNeverExpires $true -Path 'OU=EGC,DC=egc,DC=gov,DC=vm' -givenname 'first' -sn 'last' -displayname 'display name' -description 'IC NO' -title 'Job Title' -division '3' -physicaldeliveryofficename 'EGNC HQ' -telephonenumber '2424955' -mail '[email protected]' -department 'egnc hq' -company 'ministry PMO' -streetaddress 'Full Address Here' -postalcode 'BB3333'

One of the Error:

New-ADUser : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'telephonenumber'.

The error follows the the following LDAP attributes:

sn
physicalDeliveryOfficeName
telephonenumber
mail

User creation works if I remove the mentioned attributes.

Any fix for this?

Answer for:

sn is Surname
telephonenumber is officephone (Thanks to David Johnson)
physicalDeliveryOfficeName is office (Thanks to David Johnson)
mail is email

bluish · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-09 12:38:52Z

2

Which telephone number?

officephone
mobilephone

edited Jul 9, 2012 at 12:38

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Mezzan Over a year ago

you are right, it was -officephone! I found out sn is actually Surname.

Mezzan Over a year ago

Now i need to find 'physicalDeliveryOfficeName' which refers to 'Office' field and 'mail' which refers to 'E-mail' field in AD

David Johnson Over a year ago

physical Delivery Office name?

Mezzan Over a year ago

yes! physicalDeliveryOfficeName is office where as mail is just email! lol

Itchydon · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-15 12:03:19Z

I know this post is old but someone may actually need to amend the telephonenumber attribute or any other attribute that does not show up when you run get-aduser username properties *

Even though you receive the error when amending the telephoneNumber attribute using the syntax as attempted by the OP - you CAN actually amend the telephoneNumber attribute using the syntax below:

Set-ADUser username -add @{telephoneNumber="000 1111 1111"}

As the telephonenumber attribute is not a multivalue attribute If the attribute already has a value it will return an error. To amend the attribute regardless of whether there is a value or not - use -replace instead of -add

Set-ADUser username -replace @{telephoneNumber="000 1111 1111"}

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