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HarryPDF
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Sep 25, 2023

EXO command 'New-UnifiedGroup' issue on Linux version Powershell

I use below ExchangeOnline powershell (EXO v3.3) to create M365 group.   New-UnifiedGroup -DisplayName "test_group" -Owner "<owner email address>" -PrimarySmtpAddress "<primary address>"   ...
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Harm_Veenstra
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Sep 25, 2023
I just tested this in my WSL Ubuntu setup and installed PowerShell 73.7 on that and the ExchangeOnlineManagement module. Ran the command and created a test_group without any issues.

What PowerShell version are you running on Linux?
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HarryPDF
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Sep 26, 2023
I just upgraded PS to 7.3.7, but still got same error.
Is that possible to get detail error from the command, we can't tell anything from the error shown.
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    Harm_Veenstra
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    Sep 26, 2023

    You could use -Verbose in the New-UnifiedGroup cmdlet. I'm not sure if that will show enough detail. I tried it again on my Ubuntu WSL on my Windows 11 machine, and it still works...

     

    What you can do is enable logging (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/exchange-online-powershell-v2?view=exchange-ps#report-bugs-and-issues-for-the-exchange-online-powershell-module) 

     

    Connect-ExchangeOnline -EnableErrorReporting -LogDirectoryPath <Path to store log file> -LogLevel All

     

    Not sure if that will also log the New-UnifiedGroup cmdlet?

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      HarryPDF
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      Sep 26, 2023

      Harm_Veenstra 

       

      I am on native Ubuntu 20.x, not sure if Powershell and EXO module is exact same as WSL.

      I have tried many different EXO commands, except this one, others are all working good as on Windows. Only this command got different result than Windows.

      I don't know why it's text response from my command, I dont' think I can change?

       

      Below is the log file, but still don't know what's wrong.

      Got valid token from cache;Successfully got access token from cache;,Response status code does not
      indicate success: 500 (Internal Server Error).- at System.Management.Automation.MshCommandRuntime.ThrowTerminatingError(ErrorRecord errorRecord);{"ClassName":"Mic
      rosoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.TaskException" "Message":"The group can't be created" "Data":null "InnerException":null "HelpURL":null "StackTraceString":"" "Re
      moteStackTraceString":null "RemoteStackIndex":0 "ExceptionMethod":"8\nThrowError\nMicrosoft.Exchange.Configuration.ObjectModel Version=15.0.0.0 Culture=neutral P
      ublicKeyToken=<xxxxx>\nMicrosoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task\nVoid ThrowError(System.Exception System.Management.Automation.ErrorCategory System.Ob
      ject System.String)" "HResult":-2146233088 "Source":"Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.ObjectModel" "WatsonBuckets":null "localizedString":{"inserts":null "baseName
      ":"Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.Strings" "assemblyName":"Microsoft.Exchange.Management Version=15.0.0.0 Culture=neutral PublicKeyToken=<xxxxx>" "
      id":"ErrorUnableToCreateGroup" "stringId":"" "showStringIdInUIIfError":false "showAssistanceInfoInUIIfError":false "fallback":"The group can't be created"}} : [] :
      Exception;,2262.5965
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      HarryPDF
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      Sep 26, 2023

      Harm_Veenstra 

       

      Tried -verbose, but still nothing useful

      VERBOSE: Returning precomputed version info: 3.3.0
      VERBOSE: HTTP/1.1 POST with 214-byte payload
      VERBOSE: received 1003-byte response of content type text/html
      VERBOSE: Query 1 failed.
      VERBOSE: Getting message from error object
      New-UnifiedGroup: |Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.TaskException|The group can't be created

       

      I am working on Ubuntu 20, not sure if there is difference with WSL.

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