Powershell delete active directory user account...a little bit better

Hi mates,
how many times you asked to yourself : how can I delete active directory users ?
How can I do it storing administrative credentials and converting the result in JSON format ?
A friend of mine asked me a simple script to should be executed in a mixed environment : Linux/PHP and Windows.
He has to delete an active directory user account having as a back result, a JSON converted string.
Additionally he asked me to capture eventual errors
Let's see what I've done....quickly :

	# the parameter here is mandatory : you can launch the script post-poning the samaccountname of the user that you want to delete
	param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=1)]
	[string]$samaccountname
	)
	import-module activedirectory
	# here we setup the credentials to pass to the script to make Active Directory changes.
	# we can also encode these parameter to a local test file avoiding the need to write them in clear text
	# I'll show you how in a separate article
	$strScriptUser = "mydomain\administrator"
	$strPass = "mys3cre3tP@ssw0rd"
	$PSS = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $strPass -AsPlainText -Force
	$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist @($strScriptUser,$pss)
	# here you have to customize typing the domain controller name
	# with invoke-command we execute the code remotely passing the initial
	# parameter declared inside the "scritblock" part
	# we also flush the $error variable and two arrays that will contains success and failures
	# I've inherited these arrays from a previous script where I needed to execute this kinf of operation
	# in a loop, so the array had more sense than in this specific script
	Invoke-Command -ComputerName mydc -ScriptBlock {
	param ($rsamaccountname)
	import-module activedirectory
	$error.clear()
	$arrayerrors = @();
	$arraysuccessjson=@();
	try{
	# here we avoid the confirmation request
	remove-aduser -identity $rsamaccountname -confirm:$false
	$data = ("Username/SamaccountName Removed",$rsamaccountname)
	$arraysuccessjson +=$data
	# someone asked me to convert to JSON the output...you can comment this
	$arraysuccessjson | convertto-json
	}
	Catch [system.exception]{
	"User does not expist...exiting with 1"
	$arrayerrors += ("Error Description : ",$Error)
	$arrayerrors | convertto-json
	exit 1
	}
	Finally
	{
	}
	# here we pass the initial variable with the credentials captured before
	}-ArgumentList $samaccountname -Credential $credentials

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No complications, no tricks, only the essential.
Hope this helps.
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