{"id":9409,"date":"2022-09-18T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T14:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-can-i-ask-for-the-users-displayname-and-store-it-in-user\/"},"modified":"2022-09-18T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T14:34:51","slug":"solved-how-can-i-ask-for-the-users-displayname-and-store-it-in-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-can-i-ask-for-the-users-displayname-and-store-it-in-user\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How can I ask for the user&#8217;s DisplayName and store it in $user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-63454341\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"63454341\" data-parentid=\"63420760\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>OK let&#8217;s start with the basics:<\/p>\n<p>What is an cmdlet (comandlet)? You have used multiple of them. For example <code>Get-ADUser<\/code> and <code>Read-Host<\/code>. They consist of a <em>Verb<\/em> and a <em>Noun<\/em> (most of the time the words are neither verb nor noun in a gramaticle way but who cares):<br \/><code>Read<\/code> = Verb<br \/><code>Host<\/code> = Noun<br \/><code>Read-Host<\/code> = cmdlet<\/p>\n<p>Every cmdlet does something, like reading what you type, and most of them return the results as objects. Objects like strings, integers, hashtables or other crazy sh***&#8230;<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t store the output in a variable it will be printed to screen most of the time, so better save it for later:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$MyBrandNewString = Read-Host -Prompt 'Who let the dogs out?'\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Variables begin with a <code>$<\/code> the rest of the name is up to you.<br \/>\nIf you want to use the ouput of one cmdlet in another one you can either use the variable:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-ADUser -Identity $MyBrandNewString \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or put the first cmdlet in braces so that it&#8217;s executed first (The braces are replaced by the output object of the cmdlet so to say):<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-ADUser -Identity (Read-Host -Prompt 'Who let the dogs out?')\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Or (the most cool one and my favorit) you can just pipe the output of one cmdlet to another one concatenating them indefinitly:<\/p>\n<pre><code> Read-Host -Prompt 'Who let the dogs out?' | Get-ADUser \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can&#8217;t just put them behind eachother:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Get-ADUser Read-Host\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And you can&#8217;t use them as properties of objects:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$_.Disable-ADAccount\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>But you can create an object and use that as propertie of another object:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$MyBrandNewString.( Read-Host -Prompt 'Write Length')\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough PowerShell crash course for today. I very highly recomend you to read some tutorials, as all of this is the very very basics of PowerShell. But never give up and soon you will script like there is no tomorow!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">1<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How can I ask for the user&#8217;s DisplayName and store it in $user <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OK let&#8217;s start with the basics: What is an cmdlet (comandlet)? You have used multiple of them. For example Get-ADUser and Read-Host. 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