Multiple select statements

[Shelltastic]

Trying to find a way to return the friendly name of a manager of a distribution list. The following code is what is running now;

$dlmanagers = Get-DistributionGroup $dl | select -ExpandProperty Managedby

This returns the distinguished name of the manager(s);

domain.com/OU/OU/user

I'm looking to pull back the Name attribute, the following code works from a powershell console;

Get-DistributionGroup GroupName | select -expandproperty managedby | select -expandproperty name

That gives me the attribute that I want, however this command doesn't work when I run it from my application, it just comes back blank.

[jvierra]

Get-DistributionGroup returns a group. "select -ExpandProperty Managedby" returns a string. YOu cannot get the "Name" of the manager form a string. The second example will not work anywhere.

Use this:

$managerDN = (Get-DistributionGroup GroupName).managedby
$managerName = (Get-A0dObject $managerDN).Name

[Shelltastic]

The second example does work from an Exchange shell, here a link to a screen shot of it working...

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgBAbImA7NSlswTn_I7BNCtc3MXT

You'll see the first cmdlet returning the full result of the managedby, then the second example using multiple select statements that returns the attribute that I would like to output.

Tried using your suggestion, thank you by the way, but when I run the code I get the following error..

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgBAbImA7NSlswZggXd70cqSMWNs

[jvierra]

$managerName = Split-Path ((Get-DistributionGroup GroupName).managedby) -Leaf

[jvierra]

This works for me:
Get-DistributionGroup AllUsers |select -expand managedby

or this

(Get-DistributionGroup AllUsers).managedBy

[jvierra]

The attached form works for me.

[Shelltastic]

"Get-DistributionGroup AllUsers |select -expand managedby" works, but I am only trying to pull back the managers display name, this gives me all attributes.

I also tried "$managerName = Split-Path ((Get-DistributionGroup GroupName).managedby) -Leaf", gave me the following error.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AABAbImA7NSlsxw

[jvierra]

The results give you the name of each manager. If you want the display name then you will have to get the mangers user account.

Get-User managerid | select DisplayName