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only takes a minute: Sign up Continue execution on Exception up vote 1 down vote favorite Below is the script I want to execute. The issue here is once an exception occurs it stops executing, I used continue in
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the catch block but that did not work. How do I get it working even after an exception occurs it should loop in foreach. I also used a while($true) loop but that went into infinite loop. How to go about it? $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"; try { # Loop through each of the users in the site foreach($user in $users) { # Create an array that will be used to split the user name from the domain/membership provider $a=@() $displayname = powershell try catch continue on error $user.DisplayName $userlogin = $user.UserLogin # Separate the user name from the domain/membership provider if($userlogin.Contains('\')) { $a = $userlogin.split("\") $username = $a[1] } elseif($userlogin.Contains(':')) { $a = $userlogin.split(":") $username = $a[1] } # Create the new username based on the given input $newalias = $newprovider + "\" + $username if (-not $convert) { $answer = Read-Host "Your first user will be changed from $userlogin to $newalias. Would you like to continue processing all users? [Y]es, [N]o" switch ($answer) { "Y" {$convert = $true} "y" {$convert = $true} default {exit} } } if(($userlogin -like "$oldprovider*") -and $convert) { LogWrite ("Migrating User old : " + $user + " New user : " + $newalias + " ") move-spuser -identity $user -newalias $newalias -ignoresid -Confirm:$false LogWrite ("Done") } } } catch { LogWrite ("Caught the exception") LogWrite ($Error[0].Exception) } Kindly help. powershell error-handling continue share|improve this question edited Apr 26 '13 at 8:24 Ansgar Wiechers 87.1k1165104 asked Apr 26 '13 at 5:51 Ishan 1,7542466115 Why not change $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue" ? Doesn't work for you? –CB. Apr 26 '13 at 7:31 Is there a specific line that's causing the exception? –Musaab Al-Okaidi Apr 26 '13 at 7:31 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote accepted You use try {...} catch {...} when you want to handle errors. If you want to ignore them, you should set $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue" (or
PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue If a PowerShell script halts, or a portion of the code does not work, what action do you want the error to trigger? One popular solution is to tell
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the script to silently continue.Windows PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorAction Example: Check If a Service powershell erroraction ignore Has Been Installed Problems With Stop-Process Problems Displaying Registry Hives Research -ErrorAction Stop ♣ -ErrorAction Example: Check If a Service powershell errorvariable Has Been Installed # PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue example Clear-Host $SrvName = "Printer Spooler"$Service = Get-Service -display $SrvName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue if (-Not $Service) {$SrvName + " is NOT installed check the name."} else {$SrvName + " http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16229582/continue-execution-on-exception is installed." $SrvName + "'s status is: " + $service.Status } Note 1: While this example shows -ErrorAction, you must decide if it's better than the built-in message ObjectNotFound.Action Point remove -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue from the above script. Note 2: The actual name of this service is Print Spooler (not Printer). I made this deliberate mistake so as to create the error message. Problems With Stop-Process Scenario you create a http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/powershell_erroraction_silentlycontinue.htm PowerShell script which will kill several processes. The problem arises when the first process does not exist, consequently the script comes to a halt prematurely. "Cannot find a process with the process identifier 5132" Zapping processes is a classic job for SilentlyContinue ... provided you know what you're doing! If you would like to try this for real, then launch Task Manager and note the PID (process ID) of one real and two fictitious processes. Then substitute your PIDs for 5132, 5075, 5072 in my script below. # PowerShell SilentlyContinueClear-HostStop-Process 5132, 5075, 5072 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Note 3: Please don't use Stop-Process unless you understand what you are doing, for instance, you make a 'walk-though' of stopping the process with task manager. Guy Recommends: Free WMI Monitor for PowerShell Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is one of the hidden treasures of Microsoft's operating systems. Fortunately, SolarWinds have created a Free WMI Monitor so that you can discover these gems of performance information, and thus improve your PowerShell scripts. Take the guess work out of which WMI counters to use when scripting the operating system, Active Directory, or Exchange Server. Give this WMI monitor a try - it's free. Download your free copy of WMI Monitor Problems Displayin
Keith BabinecJune 9, 201320 Share 0 0 Today’s post (and this blog's inaugural post!) is An Introduction https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kebab/2013/06/09/an-introduction-to-error-handling-in-powershell/ to Error Handling in PowerShell. We will discuss error types, the $error variable, error action preferences, try/catch blocks, and $lastexitcode. The first requirement is to understand the types of errors that can occur during execution. Terminating vs. Non-Terminating Errors: Terminating Error: A serious error during execution that halts the command (or script on error execution) completely. Examples can include non-existent cmdlets, syntax errors that would prevent a cmdlet from running, or other fatal errors. Non-Terminating Error: A non-serious error that allows execution to continue despite the failure. Examples include operational errors such file not found, permissions problems, etc. Update 12/13/2013: Writing a cmdlet? For further information regarding powershell on error how a cmdlet should determine when to throw a terminating error or non-terminating error, MSDN has a niceexplanationhere. Update 12/13/2013: Want to know if an error you encountered is terminating or non-terminating? Check to see ifthe error behavioris affected by changing the$ErrorActionPreference. According to the MSDN documentation here, "Neither $ErrorActionPreference nor the ErrorAction common parameter affect how Windows PowerShell responds to terminating errors (those that stop cmdlet processing).". The $error variable: When either type of error occurs during execution, it is logged to a global variable called $error. This variable is a collection of PowerShell Error Objects with the most recent error at index 0. On a freshly initialized PowerShell instance (no errors have occurred yet) the $error variable is ready and waiting as an empty collection: PS C:\> $error.GetType() IsPublic IsSerial NameBaseType ----- ----- -------- TrueTrueArrayListSystem.Object PS C:\> $error.Count 0 In the next snippet I have executed a cmdlet that doesn&