ir2cb (ir2cb) asked a question.
Update user attributes via PowerShell
Hello,
Currently, we create new users in bulk using OktaAPI PowerShell commands. The script creates and populates a new user account with information such as name, email, department, etc.
My question is, two part: Is there a way to "get" one of those values via PowerShell? "Get-Oktauser" returns all sorts of profile information, but is it possible to get just one attribute, like "lastName" or "manager"? "Get-Oktauser username -getAttribute $value" or something?
Second part is, is there a way to edit one of those values by PowerShell or other means? "Set-Oktauser username -setAttribute $newValue" or similar?
Thanks!
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Hi Paul,
I did make some progress. Basically, I need to fetch the user's manager's email address. Since that isn't a profile attribute, I want to fetch it from a different direction and then write it back to the profile in the form of a custom attribute.
So far, I've put together a PowerShell script that will query the user's manager's name, cross-reference that with Office365, and return the associated email address.
# Get User’s Profile & Cross reference with Office
$userProf = Get-OktaUser userName | select-object profile
Get-Mailbox $userProf.profile.manager | Select-Object PrimarySmtpAddress
And it returns the smtp address. So far, this is great, I have the value we need.
Now that I have it, I just need to write it back to the user's profile as a custom attribute, $managerEmail or similar.
If there is a "Set-Oktauser -property = $value" command or similar, that would solve it!
@ir2cb (ir2cb) Thank you for the update, please see this Okta module for PowerShell and see if provides any inside:
https://toolkit.okta.com/apps/okta-psmodule/