Update Custom User Profile Property in SharePoint Online, Possible???

[John Warner]

I hope someone knows the answer to this because no one I've talked to at Microsoft does.

I have created custom properties for my user profiles, such as Employee Id.  I want to update these properties on a nightly schedule using PowerShell.  I have followed the instructions on this page in order to accomplish this task:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/bulk-user-profile-update-api-for-s...

When I run the script, I seem to get a successful run, ie: No error messages

However, the Guid returned is a null value, in other words 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Also when I run this command $o365.GetImportProfilePropertyJobs(), I get an error stating that the collection has not been initialized.  Meaning there have been no jobs created.

So it looks like this command is not working for me, am I missing something???

[#2]

I have not tried the how-to my self but I don't see anything extrange there...have you tried, as an alternative to PowerShell, to create a Visual Studio solution where you program all the stuff in C#?

[#3]

I've been able to do this successfully, and I can tell you to be sure you are a global admin running the PowerShell, have access to the library where you are writing/storing the JSON files, and especially pay very close attention to the format of your JSON files.  That gave us more grief more than anything.  I would run the script in VSCode or the ISE and go line by line to ensure things are getting loaded and check to see where you might be going sideways.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

BTW, I was able to accomplish this task by using the following PowerShell command.  Thanks to Mikael Svenson.

New-PnPUPABulkImportJob -Folder "Shared Documents" -Path "userprofileimport.json" -IdP
roperty "IdName" -UserProfilePropertyMapping @{"EmpId"="EmpId"}

[#5]

@John Warner  able to share the script you used to schedule nightly updates? I'm trying to do something similar, to update say every alternate Monday at 12 AM