How do I suppress "Yellow Text" from Exchange Set-Mailbox, when -WarningAction doesn't seem to work?

Question

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.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '16 at 01:00

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

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 29 '14 at 08:30

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Restart your shell session, your command should work as you expect. You could try -ErrorAction 0 and -WarningAction 0 but these are just aliases.

answered Apr 29 '14 at 08:30

Raf

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I attempted this in a new Powershell session. It did not work. – makerofthings7 Apr 29 '14 at 13:37
this should work.. are you using `new-pssession/import-session` to establish connectivity? – Raf May 01 '14 at 09:30

How do I suppress "Yellow Text" from Exchange Set-Mailbox, when -WarningAction doesn't seem to work?

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