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I have used successfully the below script to activate the defunct function in 2013 tasks lists Send email to assignee. It used to work perfectly and now I get an error in powershell saying that the action EnableAssignToEmail is not recognized.

Any clue on why this is happening and what should I do?

    Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
$web = Get-SPWeb "http://foo/web"
$list = $web.Lists.TryGetList("Tasks")

$list.EnableAssignToEmail = $true
$list.Update()
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Check if you specified the right list. If the list cannot be found, your variable $list is going to be null. If you get an access denied on TryGetList this may also be a permission issue. If you are sure that your account has permissions to the list, run powershell as administrator, if you did not previously.

Update:

As you mentioned, TryGetList wants you to specify the list's title according to the MSDN specification.

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  • ok, finally it worked. I thought I had to place the real name of the list (what appears in the URL) and not what is the title of the list (what you can edit from list settings), is that the reason?
    – susan
    Jun 9, 2015 at 12:15
  • Yes, TryGetListasks for the title of the list as for MSDN specification msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/….
    – Dolgsthrasir
    Jun 9, 2015 at 12:18
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Although EnableAssignToEmail has been removed from the UI it's still been working like expected when used the way you did. Also MSDN doesn't suggest any recent changes so most likely there is an issue with your list.

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