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I am trying find a specific user in AD using samaccountname if i type in an incorrect account i want the question to repeat until it finds the user, tells me the username and pauses until a key is pressed. Here is what i have so far and its not working. I am still a noob at this. 

do{
$User=Read-Host "Enter SamAcountname"}

if (dsquery user -samid $User)
{
trap {$_ | write-host "Found user $_"
}
else 
{
trap {$_ | write-host "User not found!" 
}
{
until ( $_-eq "found user")
}

Write-Host "Press any key to continue ..."

$x = $host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
leppie
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This should do it:

$prompt = "enter samaccountname"

do{    
    $User = Read-Host $prompt
} while (!$(dsquery user -samid $User;$prompt="User '$user' was not found, try again"))

$User
Shay Levy
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  • that worked awesome! I understand everything except (!$(dsquery and $User;$prompt. what is this specifying? Thanks! – user2402045 Jun 10 '13 at 20:19
  • the while block should have read: (!(dsquery and $User)) which basically checks if there was an output and negats the answer so the criteria can be evaluated to: as long as there no output re-prompt, The $prompt assignment is updating the prompt text. If you put both commands inside while it will fail, $() is a workaround to allow both commands to run. – Shay Levy Jun 10 '13 at 20:24