During an Office 365 migration (cutover migration in this case) you may encounter an error message on one or more of the users that is automatically provisioned for you in the cloud:
ProvisioningFailedException: Failed to update one of the recipient properties.
Unfortunately the error message and report give no further details about exactly which recipient property failed to update. And some searches online also turned up no specific information about this error.
However, on inspection of the properties of the failed users I noticed that they had some issues. For example, the list of send on behalf permissions for the mailbox included disabled user accounts for people who were no longer working for the company. In other cases it was the Manager field that contained an invalid user.
After clearing up these invalid entries I was then able to stop and restart the migration batch, and the users were provisioned successfully on the next attempt.
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