Cant cast object of type in powershell

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Hi, I’m currently using a powershell script to get a quarantined message from Office 365 by looking searching with a string called messageId. My code works up until

Get-QuarantineMessage -MessageId $MessageID
The error I get is below

I’m unable to cast object of type
‘System.Management.Automation.PsCustomObject’ to type ‘System.Management.Automation.PsModuleInfo’

This is my script below

param(
[string]$MessageId)

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString 'password' -AsPlainText -Force  

$UserCredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ('user@user.com', $password)


$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri 'https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/' -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

Get-QuarantineMessage -MessageId "<d7b90ba6-14bb-4050-9cf8-ffd7de2f3eec@CO1GMEHUB11.gme.gbl>"
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Hi @michael.p.wilson,
Have you tried if the same is happening with use Get-Credential instead of New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential?

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I Dont think Get-Credential works because the cmdlet cant load up the prompt to enter the details.

4

You are working with this script in Studio or only in PowerShell at the moment? If second option then cmd will normally popup for the credentials.

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Working in studio.

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Is your script normally working in PowerShell only?

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Yes thats correct.

I ran the code line by line in studio and I only get the error on

Get-QuarantineMessage -MessageId "<d7b90ba6-14bb-4050-9cf8-ffd7de2f3eec@CO1GMEHUB11.gme.gbl>"

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Not sure if it helps but try to invoke script this way:

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Same Error.

In the ‘Misc’ section what "TypeArgument’ should i be using?

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Based on your error seems that it should be set to System.Management.Automation.PsModuleInfo but sometimes it’s tricky. Sometimes whole scripts are using different arguments and you need to divide script for a separate invoked blocks where one block will trigger another one using it’s output.

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