Method to provision personal sites and OneDrive for Business for multiple users in Office365

As part of new employee workflow from within the identity management we needed to pre-provision Personal sites and OneDrive for Business.

After doing a quick research, I found the following article on the #msdn

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163783.aspx

which describes how using CSOM one can achieve the task.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Security;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles;

namespace CreatePersonalSiteBulkConsole
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string userName = "administrator@contoso.onmicrosoft.com";
            string passwordStr = "password";
            string serverUrl = "https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com/";

            using (var clientContext = new ClientContext(serverUrl))
            {
                SecureString password = new SecureString();
                Array.ForEach(passwordStr.ToCharArray(), c => password.AppendChar(c));

                var credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, password);

                clientContext.Credentials = credentials;

                var web = clientContext.Web;
                clientContext.Load(web);
                clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
                ProfileLoader loader = ProfileLoader.GetProfileLoader(clientContext);

                if (loader == null)
                {
                    throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to get ProfileLoader");
                }

                string[] userEmails = { "usera@contoso.onmicrosoft.com", "userb@contoso.onmicrosoft.com" };
                loader.CreatePersonalSiteEnqueueBulk(userEmails);
                loader.Context.ExecuteQuery();
            }
        }
    }
}

As I want to mention very important requirements for using this code as the #msdn documentation does not say clearly.



#The caller of the api must have a sharepoint user profile (means a sharepoint licenses assigned)

#The caller of the api must be "Global Admin"

#The machine from where the api would invoked must have following components installed on it;



sharepointclientcomponents_16-4002-1211_x64-en-us.msi



https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42038