Parse Excel File via PowerShell for a loop

Hello everyone,
I would like to parse a column of one of my Excel file to retrieve the string that each of its cell can contain.
This will be used to set the appropriate value of the UPN of users in a specific OU in Active Directory.
The first column being the SAMAccountName and the second column the email address, I would like a loop that for each match of SAMAccountName it finds in the first column, it sets the value of associated row in the second column as its UPN.
I know already the Active Directory cmdlets I would have to use, they works but I do not succeed retrieving data like I would like from the Excel file.
If someone could help me out on this that will be appreciated :)
Thanks a lot.

Hi,
This might help:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/7b2fdc8f-a528-4f19-b9ef-f5af349dc906
I haven't used this module myself, so I'm not sure how well it works.
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I went through your post and tried to reproduce the issue. I was able to reproduce it. Based
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Hi,
We have a lot of possible causes for this error, I would suggest your to take a look at this public blog and try the steps out there:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/05/14/the-definitive-locked-file-post.aspx
Also, below KB article describes the way that how Excel saves files, you might also want to take a look. There may be some softwares or process is accessing these temporary files. Check if there is any temporary file (~$filename.xls
or ~$filename.xlsx) in the shared folder, delete them and try again.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814068/en-us
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support

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