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I'm having trouble with creating a dynamic menu from mailbox permission entries in PowerShell. The below function gets a list of permission entries for the selected mailbox and outputs a table.

Function AuditSingleMailboxPermission($mbox) {

If ($mbox -like $null){

    Write-Host "Please select the mailbox from the list below"

    $mbox = SelectMailbox

  }



  $mboxPermissions = Get-MailboxPermission $mbox | where {$_.User -like "*@*"}

  Return $mboxPermissions

}

The next function uses the output of the previous to build the menu.

Function SelectMailboxPermission($mbox) {

$rights = (AuditSingleMailboxPermission -mbox $mbox).User

Write-Host $rights

$menu = @{}

  for ($i=1;$i -le $rights.count; $i++) {

    Write-Host "$i. $($rights[$i-1])"

    $menu.Add($i,($rights[$i-1]))

  }

  [int]$ans = Read-Host "Enter selection"

  $selection = $menu.Item($ans)

  Return $selection

}

The Write-Host $rights line shows the full username. However, the menu only returns the first letter of the username. This is a problem because the output of this function is used to remove user permissions on a mailbox. I can't figure this out for the life of me.

If (AuditSingleMailboxPermission -mbox $mbox).User returns only one item, it will return a single object, not an array with length of one. Then, when you refer to $rights[0] it won't return the first object of an array, but the first character of the String representation of the object.

Casting to Array should fix the issue:

$rights = [Array](AuditSingleMailboxPermission -mbox $mbox).User

Generic example:

PS C:> ("FOO", "BAR", "BAZ" | Select-Object -First 1)[0]

F



PS C:> ("FOO", "BAR", "BAZ" | Select-Object -First 2)[0]

FOO