Exchange anagement Shell catch enable-mailbox error

Question

I have script that creates user accounts and establishes an e-mail address for those accounts. All 'create-commands' are surrounded by a try/catch block to catch errors and add a message to the output log. This works fine... except for the enable-mailbox command

try { 
    Enable-Maibox (.. parameters ...) 
}
catch {
    $errorsEncountered = $true
    Write-Output "Error establishing e-mail address for $($UserData.username)"
}

when the enable-mailbox command fails... the catch-part is skipped. Why is this? And how can I fix this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '12 at 12:42

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Non-termineting errors are not catched. Use '-ErrorAction Stop' to make the errors terminating errors.

Enable-Maibox (.. parameters ...) -ErrorAction Stop

answered Dec 20 '12 at 12:42

Shay Levy

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but won't that stop the script entirely? I don't want it to stop, only to report the error and carry on with the next instruction. – Walter81 Dec 20 '12 at 13:25
No, it will not stop your script but enter your catch as desired. – Remko Dec 20 '12 at 13:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '15 at 20:43

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I could be wrong but "Enable-Maibox" looks mis-spelled.

answered Mar 25 '15 at 20:43

GermanBrot

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The accepted answer seems to have answered the question, despite the misspelling. Perhaps the code was typed in by hand. In any case, this was answered several years ago. – rajah9 Mar 25 '15 at 21:15

Exchange anagement Shell catch enable-mailbox error

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