How can I get values of properties from powershell

Question

I am trying to put together a powershell script that, for a given user, displays all of the user profile property information.
I have seen several blogs which show how to get the names of all the properties.
I thought that displaying the value of the property would be simple. So far, I am missing something.
function display-UserProfile
Param(
 [string]$SCURL,
 [string]$accountName
## $SCURL is a string that contains the URL path to a site collection
## $accountName is a string that contains the account name for which we need to get the profile property information
##Get the user profile property information by account name using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell
$uri=$SCURL + "/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx?wsdl"
## Web Service Reference -
http://Site/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx
$userProfileWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential
$propertyData=$userProfileWebServiceReference.GetUserProfileByName($accountName)
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Magenta "Getting the user profile property information by account name"
foreach($property in $propertyData)
 Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow $property.Name, $property.Value
When I run this, I don't get anything. I tried using "Values" but that gave me nothing for some properties and a long "path" for others
Surely the property's current setting is in the object - I just am not certain how to get it to display.
Can anyone show me what I am missing?

Answer 1

Hi,
Please try to use this:
$property.Values[0].Value
The following C# code snippet for your reference:
public void FormEvents_Loading(object sender, LoadingEventArgs e) {
XPathNavigator myRoot = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();
ProfileService.UserProfileService profileService = new ProfileService.UserProfileService();
ProfileService.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
ProfileService.PropertyData[] userProps = null;
try {
// Passing null to this method causes the profile of the current user to be returned.
userProps = profileService.GetUserProfileByName(null);
catch { }
if (userProps == null || userProps.Length == 0) {
return;
for (int i = 0; i < userProps.Length; i++) {
XPathNavigator node = null;
switch (userProps[i].Name.ToLower()) {
// these property names can be obtained by reviewing the user profile properties in the MOSS SSP.
case "preferredname":
node = myRoot.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:userName", NamespaceManager);
break;
case "accountname":
node = myRoot.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:userAccount", NamespaceManager);
break;
case "workemail":
node = myRoot.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:userEmail", NamespaceManager);
break;
case "workphone":
node = myRoot.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:userPhone", NamespaceManager);
break;
default:
continue;
ProfileService.ValueData[] values = userProps[i].Values;
if (values.Length > 0) {
if (node != null && string.IsNullOrEmpty(node.Value)) {
node.SetValue(values[0].Value.ToString());
More information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2007/03/07/get-the-user-profile-through-moss-web-services.aspx
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support