New-ADUser + OtherAttributes w/ Splatting for Readability - powershell

Question

foreach ($Person in $People) {
$NewUserParams = #{
Name = $Person.Name
Server = 'xxxx.com:389'
Path = 'CN=Users,CN=addressBook,DC=xxxx,DC=com'
Credential = $Credentials
givenName = $Person.givenName
otherAttributes = #{sn=$Person.sn}
}
New-ADUser #NewUserParams
}
I have many additional attributes (otherAttributes) that I would like to add that are available to me in the formart New-ADUser -Name XXX -OtherAttributes #{sn=xxx} . However, I am trying to using splatting to make the OtherAttributes more readable, along with other required parameters. I don't need to using splatting for the entire command, my goal was to break up otherAttributes so it wasn't a long string that wrapped. Ideas?

Answer 1

The value of otherAttributes is just another hashtable, and can be wrapped like any other hashtable:
$NewUserParams = #{
'Name' = $Person.Name
'Server' = 'server.example.com:389'
'Path' = 'cn=Users,cn=addressBook,dc=example,dc=com'
'Credential' = $Credentials
'givenName' = $Person.givenName
'otherAttributes' = #{
'sn' = $Person.sn
}
}
Personally, I recommend putting the keys of the hashtables in quotes to avoid surprises, but at least in the above example that's not required.
If the above doesn't work for you you need to provide more details about the code you're running and the error(s) you're getting. Displaying the content of the generated hashtable inside the loop usually helps troubleshooting problems with particular values.