Enums with spaces

[furieuxjk]

Hello!

First of all - thank you for great tutorials online! I am beginner and learning how to use Classes in PowerShell.

I have AD groups with spaces in sAMAccountName like "AD Group 1" and also I have AD groups with dots like "My.ADgroup.rw", but Enum doesn't allow to use spaces or dots. How to handle this situation?

Regards, F

[Stephanevg]

Hi @furieuxjk That is true. Enum can only contain Constants. There would be several solutions to your problem:

• The first I see is that you could simply replace the spaces and / the "." with underscores "_" which worked in my example.
• otherwise You create an array with your list of AD groups instead of an array (You could populate that array via queries using Get-ADGroup for example
• If you ahve only a few groups, You could forget the enum and the array, and simply simply use validateSets Parameter validation (with the names of your groups in there).
• Change the naming convention of your AD groups ( ;) pretty sure that is gonna be a though one).
• If Enums is really they you want to go with you could use a mapping table with name in AD and name for Enum, and always to refer to that mapping table. and / or ad an ID in the Enum

Something like this:

Enum Groups{
"ADGroup1" = 1
"MyADgrouprw" =2
}

#CSVFile

ID;SamACcountName;EnumName
1;""AD Group 1";ADGroup1"
2;My.ADgroup.rw;MyADgrouprw

Of course, you will have to create that list in the first place, but should not be too complicated using PowerShell ;)

[furieuxjk]

Thanks for reply!

In the end I did this:

in main Class I have this string array defined: [string[]]$BaseGroupsNewEmployee

then in Constructor I have these two AD groups defined: $this.BaseGroupsNewEmployee = "AD Group 1", "My.ADGroup.rw"

then in Method I have this: [void]addToBaseGroupsNewEmployee() { foreach ($group in $this.BaseGroupsNewEmployee) { Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership -Identity $this.UserName -MemberOf $this.BaseGroupsNewEmployee } }

And then just call $whateverIsHere.addToBaseGroupsNewEmployee()