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Powershell bulk creation - error with UserPrincipalName
Hi
I use a simple script (and it works) to bulk create new users on my M365 tenant (cloud based only).
- When I set the UserPrincipalName to e.g. [jan . jensen @ DOMAIN . onmicrosoft . com] it works (disregard the spaces, if I didn't use spaces in the example, the email gets removed by the editor).
- When I set the UserPrincipalName to e.g. [mailto:Email address removeddk] it doesn't work.
I'm missing something here, because, I assumed that the UserPrincipalName also could be the new email address.
What do I need to in order to also create a valid email address as well?
Below is the online script, and the CSV file it references.
Import-Csv -Path "C:\Users\Jens Jakobsen\users.csv" | ForEach {New-MsolUser -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -UsageLocation $_.UsageLocation -LicenseAssignment $_.AccountSkuId} | Export-Csv -Path "C:\Users\Jens Jakobsen\Results.csv"
Thanks.
jensjakobsen1966 The delimeter parameter was not specified and import-csv expects the comma and the delimeter is a semicolon in your sample file. Added the parameter and it should work now 😛
Import-Csv -Path "C:\Users\Jens Jakobsen\users.csv" -Delimeter ';' | ForEach {New-MsolUser -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -UsageLocation $_.UsageLocation -LicenseAssignment $_.AccountSkuId} | Export-Csv -Path "C:\Users\Jens Jakobsen\Results.csv"
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- What error do you receive when creating a test user manually?
New-MsolUser -DisplayName 'Harm Test' -FirstName Harm -LastName Test -UserPrincipalName Email address removed -UsageLocation NL
Because this should work if you have the domain added to your tenant of course 😉 (I just used the above syntax and my user is there)Hello Harm
The example email you used has been removed by the editor. You have to use the syntax, as I did in my first question.
I tried a one-liner, with no CSV file, and it worked like a charm. Below is the one-liner I used:
New-MsolUser -DisplayName "Lars Larsen" -FirstName Lars -LastName Larsen -UserPrincipalNamelars . larsen @ DOMAIN . dk -UsageLocation DK -LicenseAssignment kvikkastrup:STANDARDPACK- Yes, it removes it and I should have used that syntax 🙂 But ok, if you run it like that it works.. But why doesn't it work when importing it from a csv-file, syntax seems correct. Any error messages when trying to create an account using csv?
