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I have a big problem. I would like add a user to a list item via SPFieldUserValue. But this user has never used the Sharepoint site before. So I can not select the SPUser-Object of this user from a SPUserCollection.

With the UserProfileManager I can select the profile of the user but I can not convert this profile to a SPFieldUserValue.

Any Ideas?

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Use SPWeb.EnsureUser that'll make sure the user exist on the site

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Great it works :-) – AHO Jul 17 '12 at 15:30
Snippet of my solution $upm = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context) $AllProfiles = $upm.GetEnumerator() foreach($profile in $AllProfiles){ $accountName = $profile[[Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyConstants]::AccountName].‌​Value $lookupUser = $web.EnsureUser($accountName) } – AHO Jul 17 '12 at 15:32

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