PowerShell to the Rescue… SharePoint User has no EMail address

 

I’m working with a SharePoint farm where the AD synchronization is not working, and we had a user who for some strange reason did not have an email address in SharePoint and could not get alerts. So while we are working out the AD problem, here’s how I quickly added an email address for this user:

$user = Get-SPUser  domain\username -web http://yourserver/sites/yoursitecollection

`check to see if they have an email address
$user.Email

`set an email address
$user.Email = "user@domain.com"
$user.Update()

Simple… and quick. But you will need to do this for each site collection the user has access to.

 

More on Get-SPUser:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607580.aspx

More on the SPUser object that’s returned by Get-SPUser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spuser.aspx

.More on all of the properties and members of SPUser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spuser_members.aspx

 

 

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