"User cannot be found." error in Powershell

Question

I am writing a PowerShell script to re-sync my users to the AD because of a problem I have described Here. From time to time I get a "Set-SPUser : user cannot be found." error but when I call the same command again with the same parameters no error appears and it simply works.

I have no problem just writing this line twice so if the error occurs, it'll simply work the second time it is called or even running the script twice in a row. But I prefer to understand this problem.

The code looks like this:

$allSiteCollections = Get-SPWebApplication [Web-Application-Name]

foreach ($siteCollection in $allSiteCollections.Sites)
{
    $currentWeb = Get-SPWeb $siteCollection.url

    $members = $currentWeb.SiteGroups["Members"]

    foreach ($currentUser in $members.Users)
    {
        Set-SPUser -Identity $currentUser.UserLogin -Web $currentWeb.url -SyncFromAD -Group "Members"
    }
}

This is the line that throws the error:

Set-SPUser -Identity $currentUser.UserLogin -Web $currentWeb.url -SyncFromAD -Group "Members"

If it throws the error and I re-run it, it works perfectly the second time.

Does anybody have any idea why does this happen?

Answer 1

I don't know why this happens but I've seen it before. So much so that when I built my code on top of this I put a try catch in and had it do the command a second time before I was convinced that I didn't work as expected.