trouble using CSOM Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.dll with powershell

Question

I am trying to connect to the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.dll however keep getting the message -

New-Object : Cannot find an overload for "PeopleManager" and the argument count: "1".
At line:26 char:18
+ ... leManager = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.Peopl ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Object], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConstructorInvokedThrowException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

The script is this test script here which just picks up all user profiles and writes each one out (got this from here)

#Specify tenant admin and URL
$User = "USERACCOUNT.onmicrosoft.com"

#Configure Site URL and User
$SiteURL = "https://TENANT-admin.sharepoint.com"


[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles")


$Password =  Read-Host -Prompt "Please enter your password" -AsSecureString
$Creds = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($User,$Password)

#Bind to Site Collection
$Context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
$Context.Credentials = $Creds

#Identify users in the Site Collection
$Users = $Context.Web.SiteUsers
$Context.Load($Users)
$Context.ExecuteQuery()

#Create People Manager object to retrieve profile data
$PeopleManager = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.PeopleManager($Context)
Foreach ($User in $Users)
{
    $UserProfile = $PeopleManager.GetPropertiesFor($User.LoginName)
    $Context.Load($UserProfile)
    $Context.ExecuteQuery()
    If ($UserProfile.Email -ne $null)
    {
        Write-Host "User:" $User.LoginName -ForegroundColor Green
        $UserProfile.UserProfileProperties
        Write-Host ""
    }  
}

I have tried the following - change the URL

• https://TENANT-my.sharepoint.com

• https://TENANT.sharepoint.com

• https://TENANT-admin.sharepoint.com

I thought maybe they couldn't find the reference to the DLL but I can see powershell is picking them up

They are also here if I reference them directly as I downloaded the SDK for SP online

If anyone has any pointers I would be grateful.

Thanks

Answer 1

You should try downloading latest version of CSOM dlls from nuget repository and check if that works.

I had a similar problem a while ago, when I couldn't get some properties that should've been there according to msdn documentation, and getting the latest csom dlls solved the problem.

Answer 2

Thank you.

That was it, I had to download the packages from Nuget and open new ISE console. Then it worked for me.

Bare in mind, Even when creating new windows (ctrl+T) in ISE, it didn't worked out for me. Only creating completely new instance of ISE worked for me.