User cannot be found
An annoying error today when I tried to run New-SPSite. It had worked all day and then suddenly I got this:
New-SPSite : User cannot be found.
I wasn’t sure what PowerShell was complaining about as it had worked all the time. Something must be wrong with the account supplied in the -Owner option of the New-SPSite ,,,, No that wasn’t it.
As always the solution was simple.
I had restarted my PowerShell ISE and hadn’t started it to run as administrator and therefore the user causing the problem was my own account. Once I ran the ISE as administrator (RMB -> Run as administrator) and all worked fine again. phew!
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Pieter Veenstra
Is your business still running on paper trails, sprawling Excel files, or ageing Access databases? There's a better way — and I can show you exactly what it looks like. I'm the Technical Director of Vantage 365, a Microsoft solutions consultancy working with clients across the UK, the Netherlands, and worldwide. For over 30 years I've been turning messy, manual business processes into clean, automated systems that save time, reduce errors, and give teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. SharePains is not just any blog run by a Microsoft MVP. Have you ever used Try-Catch in Power Automate? The original post about Try-Catch in Power Automate can still be found on this site, https://sharepains.com/2018/02/07/try-catch-finally-in-power-automate-flow/ Or have you ever used the Pieter’s method to avoid variables and speed up your flows? https://sharepains.com/2020/03/11/pieters-method-for-advanced-in-flows/ You can contact me using contact@sharepains.com