Powershell cannot get SPSite after created it

Question

After created site collection in PowerShell with this command:

 $SiteCollection = New-SPSite -Url $WebAPP.Url -OwnerAlias $SiteColl_Owner -Language 1033 -Template $SiteColl_Template -Name $SiteColl_Name

I want to use SPSite object without Get-SPSite

$spListCollection = $SiteCollection.Lists 

foreach($List in $SiteCollLists.List) 
{ 
   $ListTemplate = $SiteCollection.ListTemplates[$List.Template] 
   $spListCollection.Add($List.Name, $List.Name, $ListTemplate) 
}

Error is:

Cannot index into a null array. At C:\Users\mmma\Desktop\CreatePortal\TestCreateInfra.ps1:69 char:8 + $ListTemplate = $SiteCollection.ListTemplates[$List.Template] + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArray

Answer 1

I can only assume that $SiteCollection = New-SPSite ... after successful creation of new site it's not returning site object to $SiteCollection variable.

So, try to $SiteCollection = Get-SPSite *newsiteurl* after creation.

As per MSDN documentation there is NO site return type for New-SPSite.

Answer 2

Site collections do not have lists, webs do.

$SiteCollection = New-SPSite ...

$myWeb = $SiteCollection.RootWeb
$spListCollection = $myWeb.Lists 

foreach($List in $SiteCollLists.List) 
{ 
   ...
}

Same thing is true of ListTemplates. That is a property of the root web object.

Your code looks like it's trying to duplicate every list from one web to another. Keep in mind that a new site starts with a number of visible and hidden lists, and your code would try to duplicate all of them. A new STS#0 Team Site starts with these.

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