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copied!<p>This issue you're facing is that the <strong>inventory</strong> function you wrote was designed to use $_ directly, and you are assuming that the $_ Variable will only be a string. The command works initially because you are extracting a list of names from a file, which is giving you a list of names which are of type <strong>[String]</strong>, and passing this collection/list of strings into the pipeline for <strong>inventory</strong> to use.</p> <p>But when using Get-QADComputer, you are getting objects of type <strong>[Selected.Quest.ActiveRoles.ArsPowerShellSnapIn.Data.ArsComputerObject]</strong> which is so much more then just a list of names. The objects have a name property, which i assume you truly are after, along with other information. You need to pull just the name portion out and pass that along into the pipeline</p> <p>So you have two options:</p> <ul> <li><p>Change the inventory function to account for the difference in input types from the pipeline (simple strings which contain the just names, or objects that have a name property and use just the name portion) </p></li> <li><p>Change the way in which you are calling the script</p></li> </ul> <p>Here is the command, I think you want </p> <pre><code> Get-QADComputer -LdapFilter "(operatingsystem=*server*)" | Select -ExpandProperty Name | inventory | Export-Csv c:\scripts\lastreboot\inventory2.csv </code></pre> <p>Note the <strong>Select -ExpandProperty Name</strong>, which takes the ADObject and will pass only the name along into the pipeline which your inventory function is expecting </p>

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