Address Line Break

jefflilland2 · 2019-03-28T18:20:45.000Z

I have to be doing something wrong here. I’m trying to update our Street Address via Powershell. The line break just isn’t updating in AD. I’m trying to update everyone in a particular OU.

get-aduser -SearchBase "OU=XXX-XXX,OU=XXX,OU=XXX,DC=Place,DC=Place,DC=local" -Filter * | set-aduser -streetaddress "Area 51'r'nSuite 220"

I run that via Powershell and the line break never appears. Any help would be appreciated.

Neally · 2019-03-28T18:23:32.000Z

You are using the wrong symbols, it needs to be backtick ( ` ) (on the tilde key), and not a single quote ( ’ )

set-aduser -streetaddress "Area 51`r`nSuite 220"

anthonystringer · 2019-03-28T18:23:58.000Z

looks like you’re using this ’ when you should be using this `

also, you could try using line breaks like this

$streetaddress = "first line
second line"

or this

$streetaddress = @"
line 1
line 2
"@

or from a file like:

get-content c:\path\to\streetaddress.txt

Neally · 2019-03-28T18:25:30.000Z

anthonystringer:

$streetaddress = @"

line 1

line 2

"@

This is called a ’ here -string ’

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jefflilland2 · 2019-03-28T18:27:28.000Z

I knew I was doing something like that. Thank you!