How to create personal site using csom ?

Question

I am using Office 365. I am trying to create personal site using following code
private void createPersonalSite()
try
//using (SPSite site = new SPSite("Site URL"))
//SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
var targetSite = new Uri("https://test/sites/18thFeb");
var securePassword = new SecureString();
foreach (char c in adminPassword)
securePassword.AppendChar(c);
adminUserId = "[email protected]";
var onlineCredentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(adminUserId, securePassword);
ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("https://test/sites/18thFeb");
clientContext.Credentials = onlineCredentials;
//Get user profile
//// Get the PeopleManager object and then get the target user's properties.
//Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.PeopleManager peopleManager = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.PeopleManager(clientContext);
//Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.PersonProperties personProperties = peopleManager.GetPropertiesFor("domainName\\userName");
//personProperties.UserProfileProperties.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.ProfileLoader loader = Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.ProfileLoader.GetProfileLoader(clientContext);
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles.UserProfile profile = loader.GetUserProfile();
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Site personalSite = profile.PersonalSite;
clientContext.Load(personalSite);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
// Let's check if the site already exists
if (personalSite.ServerObjectIsNull.Value)
// Let's queue the personal site creation using oob timer job based approach
// Using async mode, since end user could go away from browser, you could do this using oob web part as well
profile.CreatePersonalSiteEnque(true);
//clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
catch
int a = 10;
The above code runs without any exception but does not create personal site. Can anyone please let me know what is the issue?  Can you please provide me any code or link through which I can resolve the above issue?

Answer 1

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to create personal site using Client Object Model in SharePoint Online.
The following code snippet for your reference:
public void CreatePersonalSiteUsingCSOM(string tenantAdminUrl, string userName, string password, string[] emailIDs)
using (ClientContext _context = new ClientContext(tenantAdminUrl))
try
SharePointOnlineCredentials _creds = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, Utilities.StringToSecure(password));
_context.Credentials = _creds;
_context.ExecuteQuery();
ProfileLoader _profileLoader = ProfileLoader.GetProfileLoader(_context);
_profileLoader.CreatePersonalSiteEnqueueBulk(emailIDs);
_profileLoader.Context.ExecuteQuery();
catch(Exception _ex)
throw;
More information is here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/frank_marasco/archive/2014/03/25/so-you-want-to-programmatically-provision-personal-sites-one-drive-for-business-in-office-365.aspx
Best Regards
Dennis Guo
TechNet Community Support