How to Update User Email Address in SharePoint using PowerShell?
Problem: SharePoint workflows failed because the user has no email address!
You can get the user’s Email address with this PowerShell one-liner:
(Get-SPUser -Identity "Crescent\bourgeois" -Web "http://portal.crescent.com/projectpipeline").email
Solution is simple! SharePoint user has no email address, so add email address to users to resolve the issue!
How to update SharePoint user email address?
To update user email address, Use, Set-SPUser cmdlet. Here are some examples:
Syntax:
Set-SPUser -Identity "i:0#.w|Domain\username" -Email "[email protected]" -Web http://sharepoint-site-url
Example:
Set-SPUser -Identity "i:0#.w|Crescent\Salaudeen" -Email "[email protected]" -Web http://intranet.crescent.com/
This sets the Email ID of the user to given Email for entire site collection.
Change user email address from Active Directory:
You can Sync User’s Email ID from Active Directory
Set-SPUser -Identity "i:0#.w|Domain\username" -Web "http://sharepoint-site-url" -SyncFromAD
Set-SPUser -Identity "i:0#.w|Crescent\Salaudeen" -Web "http://intranet.crescent.com/" -SyncFromAD
This script syncs user properties such as Display Name, Email, Department, etc from Active directory. Here is the result of updated user Email:
PowerShell script to update the User Email address for all Sites in the web application:
Use this script to update the user’s Email address for the entire web application.
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$WebAppURL="http://intranet.crescent.com"
$UserAccount="i:0#.w|Crescent\Salaudeen"
#Update Email for all sites in the web application
Get-SPWebApplication $WebAppURL | Get-SPSite -Limit All | Foreach-object {
Write-host "Processing:" $_.Rootweb.URL
#Get the User's Current Display Name and E-mail
$User = Get-SPUser -Identity $UserAccount -Web $_.Rootweb.URL
if($User -ne $null)
{
Set-SPUser -Identity "i:0#.w|Crescent\Salaudeen" -Email "[email protected]" -Web $_.Rootweb.URL
}
}
To Sync All user details such as email, display Name, etc from the Active directory, use:
Get-SPUser -Web http://web-app-url | Set-SPUser -SyncFromAD
Hi
I tried this Get-SPUser -Web http://web-app-url | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD, but gives error – can not get the full name or email address of user error- any inputs pls.
Thanks for sharing. It worked very well.
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