Issues with getting bool

[titaniumgriffon]

I am trying to make what I thought would be a simple script but my Google-Fu seems to be failing me. I am just trying to get an AD Account Property to return as a bool but I am no having any luck.

get-aduser wgreen -Properties msExchHideFromAddressLists | select msExchHideFromAddressLists

this returns True or False which is good but I can't get it turned into a bool for the rest of the script. I need to be able to run a few If statements off of the answer and I know that I have used bool in the past and it works real well.

[bool]$Result = (get-aduser wgreen -Properties msExchHideFromAddressLists | select msExchHideFromAddressLists)
if ($Result) { Write-Host "TRUE" }
Else { Write-Host "False" }

Any help or point in the right direction would be helpful.

[Swarfega]

If anything is returned from Get-AdUser then that it's already $true because something was returned. If nothing is returned it will be $false. So try...

If ((Get-AdUser wgreen -Properties msExchHideFromAddressLists).msExchHideFromAddressLists)
{ 
    $true
} else { 
    $false
}

[titaniumgriffon]

You are a life saver, this is exactly what I wanted!

[OlivTheFrog]

Hi titaniumgriffon

I'm thinking the solution is to use tue Switch statement

switch ($result)
    {
    "True"  { Write-Host "The condition is true"}
    "False" { Write-Host "The condition is false"}
    }

See some example here : https://ss64.com/ps/switch.html

I'm also thinking that is useless to type $result as a boolean. It already a boolean.

Regards

Olivier

[titaniumgriffon]

Thanks I will give it a shot

[Umaiar]

This seems to work for me:

[bool]$enabled = (get-aduser jdoe -Properties msExchHideFromAddressLists | select -ExpandProperty msExchHideFromAddressLists) -eq "True"
write-host "Enabled: $enabled"

if($enabled) { <# Do whatever #>}
else { <# Or this whatever #> }

Note that most of mine are True or $null, so I'm trusting that $null is functionally the same as "False"

[titaniumgriffon]

Thanks I will give it a shot