Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

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Error=; Message=Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is
'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

Not having a clue what this really means, I went in and added the person to the app as a user. This was 2 hours ago and I am still getting this error.

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JR-BejeweledOne 5,836 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

I have figured this out. It's the Azure AD Object ID that it's looking for. Your answer made me start looking somewhere else. Thank you for the help.
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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

And where do I get this? Is this an Azure AD value? It's not an Active Directory value.
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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

I will try that. This is an example of the very poor documentation. I had to guess which value to use. I searched for documentation for this command and there wasn't any documentation I could find that specified which value to use for this.
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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

@JR-BejeweledOne

From the role assignment, try to use the PrincipalObjectID in the as parameter to the script below
Set-AdminPowerAppOwner -AppName 'GUID' -AppOwner @PrincipalObjectID -EnvironmentName 'GUID'

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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

Same issue and I don't understand why.
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Re: Set-AdminPowerAppOwner returns error Object id 'xxxxx' cannot be the owner of app because their principal type is 'NotSpecified', and it must be 'User'

@JR-BejeweledOne
Please makesure the GUID is correct for the user.

I tested script below and it should work as expected.

# Import the module Import-Module Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell #Get-AdminPowerApp Set-AdminPowerAppOwner -AppName 'GUID' -AppOwner 'GUID' -EnvironmentName 'GUID'

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