Hi,

There's this website that will be able to check the mx entries of our MS exchange server, and we want to write an exchange management shell script that will be able to emulate in doing so, below is the script;

$ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.navigate("http://mxtoolbox.com/")
$ie.visible = $true
$doc = $ie.document
$tb1 = $doc.getElementByID("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ucMxActionInput_txtToolInputOldSchool")
$tb1.value = mydomain.com

When executing the .ps1 and ""Run it as Administrator", we get this error;

$tb1 = $doc.getElementByID("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ucMxActionInput_txtToolInputOldSchool")

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

Server Info: IE 9 / Exchange 2010 / Windows server 2008 R2

I think you're trying to get the element too quickly. Try inserting

Start-Sleep -s 10

before the $doc = $ie.document line.  It works here.

Hi Lee,

After adding the script i get this error:

Cannot find an overload for "GetElementById" and the argument count 1.

Hi,

I know directly what you're asking for but you can just perform a nslookup, the following command would return the MX records of Microsoft.com using google's public DNS servers:

"nslookup -querytype=MX Microsoft.com 8.8.8.8"

That seems odd. What does the whole script look like now? This (below) works here. The IE windows pops up correctly navigated, with the input box populated. BTW, as already mentioned, you could just do this with NSLOOKUP.

$ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.Navigate("http://mxtoolbox.com/")
$ie.Visible = $true
Start-Sleep -s 10
$doc = $ie.document
$tb1 = $doc.getElementById("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ucMxActionInput_txtToolInputOldSchool")
$tb1.Value = "mydomain.com"

@Lee, I think it has an issue with IE9.

@Cameron, Thanks buddy yes that's what i'm looking for.