Export array with "sub-array" - arrays

Question

I am currently trying to automate license counting in Office 365 across multiple partner tenants using PowerShell.
My current code (aquired from the internet) with some modifications gives me this output:
Column A Column B Column C
-------- -------- --------
CustA LicA,LicB 1,3
CustB LicA,LicB 7,3
CustC LicA 4
But the output I want from this code is:
Column A Column B Column C
-------- -------- --------
CustA LicA 1
LicB 3
CustB LicA 7
LicB 3
Here is my current code which is exported using Export-Csv -NoType:
$tenantID = (Get-MsolPartnerContract).tenantid
foreach($i in $tenantID){
$tenantName = Get-MsolPartnerInformation -TenantId $i
$tenantLicense = Get-MsolSubscription -TenantId $i
$properties = [ordered]#{
'Company' = ($tenantName.PartnerCompanyName -join ',')
'License' = ($tenantLicense.SkuPartNumber -join ',')
'LicenseCount' = ($tenantLicense.TotalLicenses -join ',')
}
$obj = New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $properties
Write-Output $obj
}
I have tried this along with several other iterations of code which all fail catastophically:
$properties = [ordered]#{
'Company' = ($tenantName.PartnerCompanyName -join ','),
#{'License' = ($tenantLicense.SkuPartNumber -join ',')},
#{'LicenseCount' = ($tenantLicense.TotalLicenses -join',')}
}
I was thinking about making a "sub-array" $tenantLicense.SkuPartnumber and $tenantLicense.TotalLicenses, but I'm not quite sure how to approach this with appending it to the object or "main-array".

Answer 1

A second loop for each $tenantLIcense should do the trick for you. I don't have access to an environment like yours so I cannot test this.
$tenantID | ForEach-Object{
$tenantName = Get-MsolPartnerInformation -TenantId $_
$tenantLicense = Get-MsolSubscription -TenantId $_
# Make an object for each $tenantLicense
$tenantLicense | ForEach-Object{
$properties = [ordered]#{
'Company' = $tenantName.PartnerCompanyName
'License' = $_.SkuPartNumber
'LicenseCount' = $_.TotalLicenses
}
# Send the new object down the pipe.
New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property $properties
}
}
Since you have multiple $tenantLicenses that have the same company name lets just loop over those and use the same company name in the output. Assuming this worked it would not have the same output as you desired since there no logic to omit company in subsequent rows. I would argue that is it better this way since you can sort the data now with out loss of data / understanding.
Notice I change foreach() to ForEach-Object. This makes it simpler to send object down the pipe.

Answer 2

Without providing the code solution I can say that you need to build up the array.
In terms of programming, you will need to iterate the array ARRAY1 and populate another one ARRAY2with the extra rows. For example if columns A,B are simple value and C is an array of 3 items, then you would add 3 rows in the new table with A,B,C1, A,B,C2 and A,B,C3. On each iteration of the loop you need to calculate all the permutations, for example in your case the ones generated by columnB and columnC.
This should be also possible with pipelining using the ForEach-Object cmdlet but that is more difficult and as you mentioned your relatively new relationship with powershell I would not pursuit this path, unless of coarse you want to learn.