How to get user login name using powershell

Question

I have a name of an employee For eg: "XYZ". Now i want to get its login name using script. I have tried like this:

$user='XYZ'
$userName=$web.EnsureUser[$user]

But i m getting $userName null

Thanks

Answer 1

EnsureUser is a method, and you are using it as an indexer. Change $userName=$web.EnsureUser[$user] to $userName=$web.EnsureUser($user)

Answer 2

To get user login user below given command

$user='XYZ'
$userName=$web.EnsureUser($user).UserLogin