Argument errors with office 365 cmdlet

Question

I'm having issues feeding variables into the New-MsolUser cmdlet. I'm getting the following error.

New-MsolUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'â?UserPrincipalName [email protected] â?UsageLocation'.
At C:\users\test\Documents\test.ps1:148 char:1
+ New-MsolUser -DisplayName $TargetFullname â?"UserPrincipalName $TargetEmail  â?" ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-MsolUser], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.NewUser

The code I am using is:

$Source = "AnotherADUser"

$TargetFname = "New"
$TargetLname = "User"

$Target = "ausertest"
$TargetFullname = [string]::Concat($TargetFname ," ", $TargetLname)

 $SourceEmail = (Get-ADUser $source -Property EmailAddress).EmailAddress
 $SourceDomain = $SourceEmail.split("@")[1]
 $TargetEmail = ([string]::Concat($Target , "@" , $SourceDomain))

New-MsolUser -DisplayName $TargetFullname –UserPrincipalName $TargetEmail  –UsageLocation "IE" | Set-MsolUserLicense -AddLicenses "TESTINSTALL:EXCHANGESTANDARD"

This command works when I hardcode the details..

Answer 1

–UserPrincipalName and –UsageLocation use not the minus character but the character with code 8211. Maybe it's fine but try to use the standard minus instead, just to be sure.