Emailing Group Owner/Manager

Question

I'm attempting to implement a system which will allow us "expire" groups after a certain amount of time. I'm using a custom attribute to track a group's expiration date. There will be a scheduled task that will periodically run looking at the custom attribute. Once the expiration date has arrived, the scheduled task will do a number of things.

One of the things I'd like for it to do is send an email notification to the owner/manager of the group letting them know that the group has expired, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. Some of our groups are owned/managed by a single user, but many are owned/managed by another group. Ideally, if the group is owned/managed by another group, I'd like to email all members of that other group.

Thanks in advance for any tips or suggestions.

Answer 1

I figured out how to do this by stealing some code from the nifty Script Repository. Here's what I came up with:

# Email message settings
$subject = "Group Disabled Notification: %name%" # TODO: modify me
$bodyText = # TODO: modify me
@"
The following group has been disabled by %adm-InitiatorFirstName% %adm-InitiatorLastName% (%adm-InitiatorEmail%):

Group Name: %name%
Description: %description%
"@

# Get e-mail addresses of the group managers
$groupManagerEmailAddresses = @()

$groupManagerDN = "%managedBy%"
$groupManager = $Context.BindToObjectByDN($groupManagerDN)
switch ($groupManager.Class)
{
    "user"
    {
        try
        {
            $groupManagerEmail = $groupManager.Get("mail")
        }
        catch
        {
            continue
        }

        $groupManagerEmailAddresses += $groupManagerEmail
    }
    "msExchDynamicDistributionList"
    {
        try
        {
            $groupManagerEmail = $groupManager.Get("mail")
        }
        catch
        {
            continue
        }

        $groupManagerEmailAddresses += $groupManagerEmail
    }
    "group"
    {
        try
        {
            $memberGuidsByte = $groupManager.GetEx("adm-MembersGuid")
        }
        catch
        {
            continue
        }

        foreach ($memberGuidByte in $memberGuidsByte)
        {
            $memberGuid = New-Object "System.Guid" (, $memberGuidByte)
            $memberGuid = $memberGuid.ToString("B")
            $memberPath = "Adaxes://<GUID=$memberGuid>"
            $groupMember = $Context.BindToObject($memberPath)

            if ($groupMember.Class -ne "user")
            {
                continue
            }

            try
            {
                $groupManagerEmail = $groupMember.Get("mail")
            }
            catch
            {
                continue
            }

            $groupManagerEmailAddresses += $groupManagerEmail
        }
    }
    default
    {
        continue
    }
}

if ($groupManagerEmailAddresses.Length -eq 0)
{
    return
}

foreach ($groupManagerEMailAddress in $groupManagerEmailAddresses)
{
    $Context.SendMail($groupManagerEMailAddress, $subject, $bodyText, $NULL)
}