Clearing all telephone information for an AD account

I had a question through the blog asking how you could clear the telephone, pager and ipphone information from a user account.

Telephone information in AD appears on the General tab telephone and Other..   And on the telephone tab there is home, mobile, pager, fax and ipphone each of which can have a number of Other phone numbers added

I thought it best to write a function that clears all telephone information.  That way you can pick out the bits you need.

function clear-telephoneInfo {            
[CmdletBinding()]            
param (            
 [parameter(ParameterSetName="ByDN")]            
 [string]$dn,            
 [parameter(ParameterSetName="ByName")]            
 [string]$name,            
 [parameter(ParameterSetName="ByName")]            
 [string]$ou            
)            
switch ($psCmdlet.ParameterSetName) {            
 "ByDN"  {$distname = $dn }            
 "ByName"  {$distname = "cn=$name,$ou" }            
 default {Write-Host "Error!!! Should not be here" }            
}            
            
## clear telephone from General tab            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.TelephoneNumber = ' '            
$user.otherTelephone = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()             
            
## clear Telephone tab            
## Home Phone            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.homePhone = ' '            
$user.otherHomePhone = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()             
            
## Pager            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.pager = ' '            
$user.otherPager = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()              
            
## Mobile            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.mobile = ' '            
$user.otherMobile = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()              
             
## Fax            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.facsimileTelephoneNumber = ' '            
$user.otherFacsimileTelephoneNumber = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()              
            
## Fax            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.ipPhone = ' '            
$user.otherIpPhone = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()            
            
## Notes            
$user = [adsi]"LDAP://$distname"            
$user.info = ' '            
$user.SetInfo()              
}

I created two parameter sets – one for the distinguished name (ByDN) and one where the name and OU are supplied.

The $distname parameter is set based on the parameter set.

An ADSI call gets the user; the telephoneNumber and othertelephone attributes are set to blank strings and the SetInfo() is called to write the changes back.

This is repeated for the other types of phone number and the Notes field on the telephone tab

I broke it up like this to make it easier to pick and choose what you need.  It would be possible to add more parameters to only pick off a particular type of phone number

UK PowerShell group – December 2012

Last meeting of 2012 – PowerShell jobs and scheduled tasks

When: Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)

Where: 
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PowerShell jobs provide the ability to perform long running background tasks. With the introduction of cmdlets to schedule tasks the possibilities increase

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Powershell Resources

I’ve reorganised the slide packs and recordings for the UK PowerShell group. You can find them here

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43cfa46a74cf3e96!cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2139273

Three folders:

• Events – slides from events I’ve spoken at
• Scripts
• UK PowerShell Group
•        Meeting Recordings – includes slide packs
•        Slide packs – from older meetings where the recording isn’t available

Enjoy

Introduction to PowerShell workflows

The recording, slides and demo scripts from tonights session are available at

https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%2140260

Workflow session reminder

The re-scheduled UK PowerShell group session on workflows will happen tomorrow. Details from

http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/11/14/powershell-group-session.aspx

Kindle Fire quirk

Quick report of an oddity that I discovered with the Kindle Fire.  If you copy an ebook in mobi format onto the Fire you can read it with no problem.  If you select remove from device when you have finished reading the book it disappears from the list on books on the device. The file isn’t deleted though – you need to do that manually.

I’ve been using the Fire for a few weeks now and its an excellent travelling machine.

PowerShell Group Session

I seem to have fixed my audio problems so I’m re-scheduling the session

When: Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 7:30 PM (GMT)

Where: 
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Workflows are one of the big things in PowerShell v3. This session provides an introduction and overview of this must know technology

Notes

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Apologies for meeting failure

Apologies to all who tried to attend the Live Meeting tonight – I had audio problems that I couldn’t resolve.

I’ll reschedule the session when I’ve fixed the problem

UK PowerShell Group–13 November

Quick reminder of tomorrow’s session

http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2012/10/20/uk-powershell-group-november-2012.aspx

New about files

PowerShell v3 features updateable help.  The help files are not quite complete at the moment but a recent update to the help that is available brought a couple of very useful files:

about_WMI

about_WQL

The first gives a good overview of WMI and the its structure.  Good background reading.

The second gives a very good start for using WMI Query Language – WQL.  It doesn’t cover everything – for instance associations are mentioned but it does give enough to work sensibly with WMI filters.

Both files are recommended reading