Powershell – How to suppress “Yellow Text” from Exchange Set-Mailbox, when -WarningAction doesn’t seem to work

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I am doing a bulk import, setting or updating attribute6 on 1,000 users in AD.

I'm using the following Exchange commandlet to accomplish this:

 [PS] C:\>set-mailbox -Identity  user@company.com   -CustomAttribute6  knruiz@nfp.com    -WarningAction:SilentlyContinue -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

The above command is repeated 1000 times and is auto generated.

My problem is that I want to generate a list of errors that I can feed back upstream to resolve errors such as:

  • Missing user
  • Ambiguous user
  • Failure in setting attribute.

What I want to eliminate is the following text:

WARNING: The command completed successfully but no settings of 'company.com/Enterprise/Users/last, first' have been
modified.

What I've tried was setting the following -WarningAction:SilentlyContinue -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

It seems that either the exchange commandlets don't support this, or perhaps because Exchange Powershell commandlets use "remoting" with stubs may be complicating the error handling.

Best Answer

You can try setting the warning action before running the command:

$oldWarningPreference = $WarningPreference
$WarningPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
set-mailbox -Identity  user@company.com -CustomAttribute6 knruiz@nfp.com -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$WarningPreference = $oldWarningPreference
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