ARS Script Module - Notify edsvaSecondaryOwners after creating users works but not after copying users!

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Hi! I am about to implement different script modules in our environment. All but one litle part works as expected. If an administrator creates a user with a special kind of employeeType, i want the process to send the information to the selected SecondaryOwners (defined as a mandatory parameter, if SecondaryOwners is empty, it´s not possible to create a user with this special kind of employeeType). Same behaviour should be recognized within the copying of any user-object. But thats the anoying thing...it doesn´t and i am getting angry Active Roles SDK tells me teh following about my chosen event handler: onPreCreate/onPostCreate: Object creation or copy requested/committed This is the error i see in the eventlog of our Active Roles Server: At line: 27 char:1. You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression. Line 27 is marked in cyan color in my script below: ############################################################ function onPostCreate($Request) { $Head = "" if ($Request.Class -ne "user") { return } $EmployeeType = $Request.Get("employeeType") if ($EmployeeType -like "Extern*") { $SAMAccountName = $Request.Get("SAMAccountName") $DN = $Request.Get("distinguishedName") $AccountExpiresTEMP = Get-QADUser $SAMAccountName -IncludedProperties AccountExpires | Select-Object AccountExpires #$Request.Get("AccountExpires") $AccountExpires = $AccountExpiresTEMP.AccountExpires #edsvaSecondaryOwners join with ";" to split later. $TEMPSecOwners = Get-QADUser $SAMAccountName -IncludedProperties @{Name=’edsvasecondaryowners’;Expression={[string]::join(“;”, ($_.edsvasecondaryowners))}} | Select-Object @{Name=’edsvasecondaryowners’;Expression={[string]::join(“;”, ($_.edsvasecondaryowners))}} #All values saved in an array and split into rows [ARRAY]$SecondaryOwners = $TEMPSecOwners.edsvasecondaryowners.ToString().split(";") $Message = "Blablabla" $Message += "

" $Message += "SamAccountName: " + $SAMAccountName + "

" $Message += "DistinguishedName: " + $DN + "

" if($AccountExpires -eq $NULL){ $AccountExpires = "Kein Wert festgelegt / No defined value" } $Message += "Ablaufdatum: " + $AccountExpires + "

" #There is no Object with more than 3 SecOwners, this is why 4 is more than enough values. $Message += "Manager: " + $SecondaryOwners[0] + "
" + $SecondaryOwners[1] + "
" + $SecondaryOwners[2] + "
" + $SecondaryOwners[3] + "
" $Body = ConvertTo-Html -Head $Head -body $Message foreach($Verantwortlich in $SecondaryOwners){ $Empfaenger = $NULL $Empfaenger = Get-QADUser $Verantwortlich -IncludedProperties mail -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object mail #Mail versenden $SmtpServer = "changed-for-forum@loughing.com" $from = "masterofdesaster@fantasy.de" $subject = "Ein Benutzerkonto (Benutzer-Typ Extern) wurde erstellt!" $smtp = New-Object system.net.mail.smtpClient($SmtpServer) $mail = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $mail.From = $from #$mail.to.Add($add) $mail.to.Add($Empfaenger.mail) $mail.Subject = $subject $Mail.IsBodyHtml = $true $mail.Body = $Body $smtp.Send($mail) } } } ##################################################### Why does it work while creating a user but not copying? Any ideas? Greetings @all Mike

Terrance.Crombie · Answer

Use this script sample from the Active Roles SDK to detect if a Copy operation is being performed. You can then get the desired Active Roles Virtual Attribute values from the source object and copy them to the target object: 
 
 function onPreCreate($Request)
{
	# Verify the type of the request
	If([int]Request.Parameter("Type") -eq $Constants.EDST_REQ_COPY)
	{
 # Object copying requested
 # Binding to the original object
 $ADsPath = $Request.Parameter("LdapServer") + "/" + $Request.GetInControl($Constants.EDS_CONTROL_SOURCE_OBJECT_DN)
 $obj = Get-QADObject $ADsPath
 #
 # Here goes your code that uses the original object
 #
	}
}

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ARS Script Module - Notify edsvaSecondaryOwners after creating users works but not after copying users!