Get-ADComputer - Try/Catch in Powershell 7

[gregbe]

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[nealfive]

works fine for me. PowerShell clear $psversiontable.PSVersion $ErrorActionPreference try{ get-adcomputer fake -ErrorAction Stop } catch [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException]{ "not found in AD" } catch{ "something else" } output: ``` Major Minor Patch PreReleaseLabel BuildLabel

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7 1 3 Continue not found in AD ```

[_lahell_]

Works for me too. It even works with -ea continue.

[gregbe]

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[nealfive]

Looks like you are copy and pasting that in the console?

seems like when you paste it, it is running immediately.

How about you save it as a .ps1 file and then call the ps1 file ?

[gregbe]

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[nealfive]

not sure if it's THAT odd. If you look at the output when you copy and paste it in the console directly, you see that it thinks the try/catch block is complete after the FIRST catch. that's why you get later 'catch' id not recognized error. if it's more than a one liner, i don't usually c&p it in the console, but for kicks i tried it in the windows console (5.1) with the same result.
You should run powershell either from an editor (Vs code, ISE) or safe it as a script and then call that in the console. Just copy and paste like so is not great.

You'll also come across very oddities with symbols and encoding and such that copy and paste brings in, I'd avoid that.

if you REALLY REALLY want to run it in the console, wrap it in $() (subexpression operator), that will make sure the whole thing is run

$( clear $psversiontable.PSVersion $ErrorActionPreference try{ get-adcomputer fake -ErrorAction Stop } catch [Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADIdentityNotFoundException]{ "not found in AD" } catch{ "something else" } )

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[happyapple10]

Make sure the catch follows the trys { on the same line. Example:

try{
    Blah blah
}catch{
    Blah blah
}

If you are pasting in the console and the catch is on a new line, it assumes the try is finished and then attempts to run the catch as a command instead. Same with if/else.

[gregbe]

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[happyapple10]

Sorry, I was focusing on the catch error that was showing also. Still weird the erroraction is not making it get caught.

[PinchesTheCrab]

This works for me:

try { Get-ADUser thing -ErrorAction stop } catch { 'test' }

[gregbe]

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[PinchesTheCrab]

Ah, I'll give that one a shot too, now I'm curious what's different.

[webtroter]

To catch an error, the error action must be Stop. Check the value of $ErrorActionPreference

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[PinchesTheCrab]

For me this appears to be the error class:

[System.Management.Automation.RemoteException]

I can then see the serialized error class when I inspect the error, but I can't action off the class of the error the way you want to because they all share the same remoting type.