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November 13
Getting a “Method not found” Error when using PnP PowerShell

This question has come up a few times so I thought I’d blog it so I had an easy place to point people. You can also go to the PnP PowerShell GitHub Comments for the same information.

If you’ve watched any of my podcasts, or seen me speak at any technical events you know I’m a big fan of the Patterns and Practices (PnP) PowerShell cmdlets. They make working with Office 365 tolerable, even enjoyable. The PnP PowerShell is a community led, Microsoft supervised, project on GitHub. If you’re not already using it, you should check it out.

Along with scads of other software running on our machines, it gets updated once a month or so. In the last couple of months a couple of clashing updates have caused PnP users some stress. Specifically when they use the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet to connect to SharePoint Online they get a “Method not found” error message. The PnP team was on it. They published this fix:

  1. Delete all the SharePoint Components from the Control Panel (Add/Remove)
  2. Open the GAC location (C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL), search for the term SharePoint and delete all the folders. (This is required since the reference is still old which is used by the PnP commands)
  3. Re-Start the machine
  4. Install the latest version of the SharePoint PnP

That should do it. From the comments I’ve seen, and my own experience, this has a 100% success rate. Again, you can read all about it on GitHub.

Thanks to the PnP Team for all you do, and for getting this fix out so quickly.

tk

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