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Office 365 - PowerShell Script to Upload Files to a Document Library using CSOM
Posted
11 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
16
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UPDATE: The script now supports uploading files larger than 2MB. Another PowerShell sample script for you. This one uploads all files within a specified local directory to a Document Library within a Site in an O365 tenant. All you need to run this...
Office 365 - PowerShell Script to Create a List, Add Fields and Change the Default View all using CSOM
Posted
11 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
4
Comments
I'm my continued quest to get to grips with the Client Side Object Model (CSOM) in SharePoint 2013, I have put together a sample script below that connects to a Site Collection within an O365 tenant and does the following: Creates a list using...
Download language packs for SharePoint 2013
Posted
11 months ago
by
Steve Jeffery
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Creating a Large Number of Users in AD for testing
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue with the User Profile Service Application and needed to build a repro environment, as part of this I needed to create a large number of users in AD to import into the UPA (too many to do manually using AD Users...
Getting Started with Office 365 and the Client Side Object Model - CSOM
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
SharePoint 2013 included some huge improvements to the Client Side Object Model, as more and more of the customers that I work with are moving to Office 365 I need to start thinking about updating the various scripts that I have to use CSOM. This is critical...
The Magically Disappearing "Destination Folder" Option
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
I recently investigated an interesting issue for a customer. As you may know, when uploading a Document to a Document Library you are presented with the option to select which folder within the library to upload the document to, if the document library...
Invalid field name {17ca3a22-fdfe-46eb-99b5-9646baed3f16}
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
Not the most descriptive title but basically summarises the issue. A customer contacted me as they had issues with an Approval Workflow, basically the Workflow would execute but it would never add anything to the Tasks list. The only information present...
Identifying Sites using the Publishing Feature
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Below is a simple script that iterates through all Site Collections in all Web Applications within a farm and outputs a list of Site Collections that have the Publishing Feature enabled, I needed this recently during a customer engagement to help them...
Working with SharePoint list data - OData, REST and JavaScript
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Jeffery
11
Comments
Working with SharePoint list data using OData, REST and JavaScript Recently I’ve been doing a fair amount of work with SharePoint list data using OData and the SharePoint 2013 REST APIs; so I thought I would share some of my experiences with...
The Magically Disappearing Sub-Site!
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Working with a customer recently and a sub-site had magically disappeared in their SharePoint 2010 environment, it wasn't available to recover from the Site Collection recycle bin so they had to use their 3rd party backup tool to recover the sub-site...
Create a Site Structure using PowerShell
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
3
Comments
Updated to reflect feedback from Wes MacDonald - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/wes%20macdonald/ Another day, another excuse to write a PowerShell script! This time I was working with a customer who needed to create a Site Collection for...
Determine Site Template
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Another day, another PowerShell script! This time a script that will return details about the Site Template that a SharePoint site is using. A customer of mine has a large number of custom site definitions and regularly needs to determine the template...
Using PowerShell to upload a scripts output to SharePoint
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
5
Comments
I often get asked to help customers write PowerShell scripts to aid with the reporting and administration of their SharePoint environment and as you can probably see from my previous Blog posts, this is something I rather enjoy! Recently a customer asked...
Remove SharePoint 2007 Top Navigation using PowerShell.
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Andy Day [MSFT]
Following on from Steve's great post yesterday about creating site Navigation from CSV it got me thinking, what If I want to use this to create the Global Navigation on a farm that already has a hotch-potch TopNav structure? If this is the situation...
List View Lookup Threshold
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
I was recently delivering a SharePoint Risk Assessment on a customers SharePoint 2010 environment, one of the issues identified by the assessment was that the List View Lookup Threshold for all Web Applications had been increased from its default setting...
Build site navigation from CSV file
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Jeffery
One of our customers needed some help to build out navigation from a .csv file in their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. PowerShell seemed to be the most simple option for them; so my colleague Andy and I created the following script...
Automating Test-SPContentDatabase
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
The SharePoint Health Analyzer included in SharePoint 2010/2013 has a rule named "Missing server side dependencies" . This rule reports details of all artifacts that are referenced within a content database that are not installed within the local farm...
Audit settings in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Jeffery
As you will have seen in some of our other blog entries here, we often get asked to assist our customers in creating PowerShell scripts. I've recently been working on a script to help ensure that a client is able to set site collection auditing. For...
Windows PowerShell Script to Output Site Collection Information
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
22
Comments
Windows PowerShell is a fantastic tool; SharePoint 2010 has literally hundreds of different PowerShell Cmdlets that are available out of the box, if you don’t believe me check this out - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678226.aspx ...
Current Storage Used Figure is Incorrect for a Site Collection
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 keep a record of the total storage consumed by each Site collection; this is presented in Central Administration within the Site Collection Quotas and Locks page and also the Storage Space Allocation page within each Site...
Community Sites - Where are my analytics reports!
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
3
Comments
Community Sites are a new type of site introduced in SharePoint 2013, if you are unfamiliar the following article has some background information on their purpose and functionality - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219805(v=office.15) ...
Using PowerShell to Measure Page Download Time
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
8
Comments
I was recently working with a customer that reported some performance issues in their SharePoint 2013 proof of concept environment, specifically page render time was very poor. I wanted to establish exactly how bad this was and also put in place some...
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