Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Get-SPOSite : The site ‘SiteUrl’ is not properly formed.

Hi All,

Today new issue and solution 🙂

For my SharePoint online site, I need to set the one of the property through PowerShell. So I am trying to get the Site using Get-SPOSite as

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $site = Get-SPOSite 
"https://youcando.sharepoint.com/teams/youcandoteam/"

but I am getting following error as

Get-SPOSite : The site https://youcando.sharepoint.com/teams/youcandoteam/ is not properly formed.
At line:1 char:9
+ $site = Get-SPOSite “https://youcando.sharepoint.com/teams/youcandote …

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-SPOSite], ServerException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell.GetSite

Fig 1 : Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Error “The site is not well formed”

After googling, in one of the blog found that use “Identity” element before the URL, so we tried as

$site = Get-SPOSite 
-Identity "https://youcando.sharepoint.com/teams/youcandoteam/"

but no luck 🙁

same error as – Get-SPOSite : The site ” is not properly formed as.

Fig 2 : Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Error “The site is not well formed” even though ‘-Identity’ parameter is used before

After googling bit more in one of the blog found that , remove the trailing “/” from the URL and it worked like charm 🙂 as

Fig 3: Office 365 / SharePoint Online – after removing the trailing “/”  Get-SPOSite worked

This is easiest solution but thought to share since it took my around an hour to solve this.

Thanks for reading 🙂

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