Powershell: Use Users full name of windows account to create NavServerUser

ImperatorMing

Hey there,

I am creating a new local Windows User with a full name this way:

New-LocalUser -Name "User03" -FullName 'testname' -Description "Description of this account." -NoPassword

Works fine. Now I want to create a new NavUser and use the full name of that windows Account. Hardcoded it looks like:

New-NavServerUser -WindowsAccount User03 -FullName 'test' -ServerInstance 'MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$Nav'

But how to get the fullname into a variable so i can write this command:

New-NavServerUser -WindowsAccount User03 -FullName $FullName -ServerInstance 'MicrosoftDynamicsNavServer$Nav'

To fill the Variable i tried for example this:

$FullName = (get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Caption -eq "User03"}).FullName

Does not work for me, after entering

$FullName

into the console, there is no output. Also there is no error massage so i could not imagine why it does not work.

Can someone help?
Thanks!

ftornero

Hello @ImperatorMing,

Have you tried this commanda alone to see the users:

get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount

Because I think that you are missing the domain name in the filter for the Caption value.

$FullName = (get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Caption -eq "Domain\User03"}).FullName

Or you can use the like comparation instead the equal one.

$FullName = (get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Caption -like "User03"}).FullName

Regards.

ftornero

Hello @ImperatorMing,

Have you tried this commanda alone to see the users:

get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount

Because I think that you are missing the domain name in the filter for the Caption value.

$FullName = (get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Caption -eq "Domain\User03"}).FullName

Or you can use the like comparation instead the equal one.

$FullName = (get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Caption -like "User03"}).FullName

Regards.

ImperatorMing

You are right, it is domain specific. Thanks!