Exchange Online Error: You must provide a required property: Parameter name: UsageLocation

I’m continuing my efforts to update MOC 20697-2 this morning. I’ve decided to add additional information on Office365. Microsoft removed over 2000 SaaS products from Azure in October of 2016. This resulted in 2 lessons of this class now being void. While adding in content for Exchange Online, I discovered an error.

Set-MsolUserLicense : You must provide a required property: Parameter name: UsageLocation

At line:1 char:1

+ Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "KFrog@Adatum2008JY.onmicrosof ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [Set-MsolUserLicense], MicrosoftOnlineException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.RequiredPropertyNotSetException,Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.SetUserLicense

This error played with me for a while. It is telling me that I am missing a property and its’ parameter name is UsageLocation. I went to the help file for Set-MsolUserLocation, but that parameter is not part of the cmdlet. What I discovered is that the user’s Azure AD object has a property called UsageLocation and that it was NULL. I utilized the Set-MsolUser cmdlet with its –UsageLocation parameter and set the value to “US”.

Now this works:

$License = (Get-MsolAccountSku | Where AccountSkuId -like "*ENTERPR*").AccountSkuId

Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "KFrog@Adatum2008JY.onmicrosoft.com" -AddLicenses $License

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