Get-SPOSite find existing sites-CodePudding

This is the code that will check if any of the sites listed already exists.

 $sites = get-content -Path C:\code\CheckSPSites.txt

foreach($site in $sites){
$url = (Get-SPOSite -Filter{url -like $site} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null


        if ($url -eq $true){
            Write-Host "$site already created" -BackgroundColor Red
        }else{
            Write-Host "$site not created" -BackgroundColor Green
        }
}

It doesn't find the sites when I use the variable $site to filter the search.

I've tried putting the variable in quotes (Get-SPOSite -Filter{url -like "$site") and it doesn't work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

CodePudding user response：

Thank you Theo and UBK. Posting your suggestion as an answer to help other community members.

You can use -Identity parameter along with the site collection URL to find out the existence.

For example: Get-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com

# Verify if site of same name already exists in SharePoint Online
$siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url

# If it does, stop the script
if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
    Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
    ...
}

If your code fails when site is not present, then you can try following try-catch block:

try {
    $siteAlreadyExists = Get-SPOSite -Identity $url

    if ($null -ne $siteAlreadyExists) {
        Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
    }
}
catch {
    Write-Host "Site already exists" -ForegroundColor Red
}

You can refer to Number of SPO sites causing issue with Get-SPOSite