Remove a Distribution List Owner via powershell

[Hil Participant Topics: 31 Replies: 41 Points: 215Rank: Participant]

If I run the script to add a new admin to a DL, it works fine:

$dl = ‘[email protected]’
$Admin = ‘[email protected]’
Set-DistributionGroup $dl -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck -ManagedBy((Get-DistributionGroup $dl).ManagedBy + $Admin)

But If I run this script to remove an admin it fails. I believe this worked in the past.
The error I get is “does not contain a method named ‘op_Subtraction'”

Set-DistributionGroup $dl -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck -ManagedBy((Get-DistributionGroup $dl).ManagedBy – $Admin)

How can I use powershell to remove an admin from a DL?
Thanks

[Lars Panzerbjørn]

This worked for me, but a **long** time ago, probably Exchange 2010 or so….
`
$Alias = ‘DL_ALL_In_Company’
$NewMGR = ‘Joe Smith’
$DG = Get-DistributionGroup $Alias
$List = $DG.ManagedBy
$New = Get-Mailbox $NewMGR
$List += $New
Set-DistributionGroup $Alias -ManagedBy $List
`

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Lars Panzerbjørn.

[Hil Participant Topics: 31 Replies: 41 Points: 215Rank: Participant]

Lars Panzerbjørn wrote:

This worked for me, but a **long** time ago, probably Exchange 2010 or so….

`

$Alias = ‘DL_ALL_In_Company’

$NewMGR = ‘Joe Smith’

$DG = Get-DistributionGroup $Alias

$List = $DG.ManagedBy

$New = Get-Mailbox $NewMGR

$List += $New

Set-DistributionGroup $Alias -ManagedBy $List

`

This script would add an owner. That part already works for me.

I need to be able to REMOVE an owner  from a DL (not mailbox) via powershell.

 

[Lars Panzerbjørn]

Sorry, I misread. And if you do $List - $New?
IIRC, “ManagedBy” is a collection of objects (Mailboxes), and you are trying to remove a string.

• This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by Lars Panzerbjørn.

[Hil Participant Topics: 31 Replies: 41 Points: 215Rank: Participant]

Thanks Lars.

Unfortunately it gives the same error on the line $List = $List – $New
Error: “does not contain a method named ‘op_Subtraction'”

[Olaf Participant Topics: 7 Replies: 2458 Points: 6,439Rank: Community MVP]

Remove a String from a Multi-Valued Attribute ….

[Hil]

Thanks Olaf.

I finally got it to work.

$DL_Alias = ‘[email protected]’
$Admin_Alias = ‘[email protected]’
$lists = (Get-DistributionGroup $DL_Alias).ManagedBy
$NewList = @()
foreach ($list in $lists) {if ($list -ne (Get-RemoteMailbox $Admin_Alias).identity){$NewList += $list}}
Set-DistributionGroup $DL_Alias -ManagedBy $NewList

Any way I could get this in a single line of code (other than the 2 valiables lines). I was hoping to pass variables via Excel.

If not that fine.

 

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[Rob Simmers Participant Topics: 13 Replies: 1753 Points: 3,136Rank: Community Hero]

Loop not required, just check if the object is in the array:

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if ($list -notcontains (Get-RemoteMailbox $Admin_Alias).identity) {$NewList += $list}

1	if ($list -notcontains (Get-RemoteMailbox $Admin_Alias).identity) {$NewList += $list}

[Hil Participant Topics: 31 Replies: 41 Points: 215Rank: Participant]

Rob Simmers wrote:

Loop not required, just check if the object is in the array

if ($list -notcontains (Get-RemoteMailbox $Admin_Alias).identity) {$NewList += $list}

Thanks Rob. Unfortunately that does not remove the admin from the list. If the admin is in the list, all admins are stripped. Also I would still end up with 4 lines of code.

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