Powershell pre provisioning One Drives on a M365 tenant

[Kevin Egan]

I'm new to PowerShell and trying to follow these instructions to pre provision OneDrives in bulk on a tenant

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/pre-provision-accounts#pre-provision-many-users-at-the-...

I connect to my tenant , create a text file with users and save to C drive then try and run the script but get these errors (see pic) any idea what I'm doing wrong? probably something really simple

[#2]

Hello,
What format did you gave to the users file? did you save it where you are calling it? (C:\users.txt)

[#3]

I called it users and it's a .txt file then saved on my c drive

[#4]

yes , this is the path where I saved it "C:\users.txt"

[#5]

Seems users.txt is empty or is failing to load

[#6]

strange , as a test I have two users email addresses from the tenant in the file who's One Drives are not provisioned. Should it be a .csv file or should it be saved somewhere different to C drive?

[#7]

After running
$users = Get-Content -path "C:\Users.txt"

call the variable running:

$users

and see if there is any output

[#8]

that brings up the users on my text file . I'm not running it as an administrator either, is that anything to do with it?

[#9]

@Andres Gorzelany did you mean like this? (see pic) it bought up the two users on my file

[#10]

I changed the text file to a .csv and it worked. From the microsoft link in original post it seems to suggest creating a .txt file

[#11]

It's worked once for one unprovisioned user and I'm doing exactly the same thing again for other un provisioned users and it doesn't work !

[#12]

The other factor to why it wasn't working was that I was creating new users in the admin centre then trying to provision their One Drives immediately with PowerShell. I'm sure you have to wait for a certain period from when you create a new user to when the provision via PowerShell will work?

[#13]

@Kevin Egan 

That could also affect