SharePoint Diary

Copy SharePoint Alerts from One User to Another using PowerShell

October 31, 2015 Alerts, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Copy SharePoint Alerts from one user to Another. PowerShell script to copy SharePoint Alerts from one user to another: We wanted to create alerts for a new user as same as an existing user who is moving out of organization. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -errorac…

How to Stop and Start All SharePoint 2013 Farm Services using PowerShell?

October 31, 2015 Administration, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Prior to SharePoint patching, its a best practice to Stop all SharePoint 2013 and its related services and then start once patching is completed. If you don't do this, your service pack or patch installation will take longer than its expected. So what are all the services to be stopped? S…

SharePoint 2013 Search Crawl Log History Report

October 31, 2015 Admin Reports, PowerShell, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013

Requirement: Generate SharePoint 2013 search crawl report on daily basis. Solution: Crawl history can be viewed from SharePoint 2013 search service application as in the below screen. It gives the crawl log history report for all content sources. Why don't we automate it with PowerShell…

SharePoint Online: Delete All List Items using PowerShell

October 23, 2015 Client Side Object Model (CSOM), Document Library, List, Office 365, PnP PowerShell, PowerShell, SharePoint Online

Requirement: Delete All Items from SharePoint Online List using PowerShell We have a list in SharePoint Online - Office 365 site with a bunch of items. Need them to be deleted in bulk rather deleting one by one from SharePoint web UI. So, let us use SharePoint Online PowerShell to delete all li…

How to Delete a List in SharePoint Online using CSOM-PowerShell?

October 23, 2015 Client Side Object Model (CSOM), List, PowerShell, SharePoint Online

Requirement: Delete a list in SharePoint Online using PowerShell. Important: Make sure, you have SharePoint Online client run time installed on the client machine before proceeding. Download it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42038 PowerShell Script to del…

How to Change Service Accounts in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell

October 21, 2015 PowerShell, Security, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Change Service Accounts in SharePoint 2013 If you have created a new managed account or want to change the mapping of managed Account with SharePoint 2013 Services, Go to: Central Administration >> Security Under the General Security section, click Configure Service accounts. Pick th…

How to Delete a Service Application in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell?

October 21, 2015 Central Administration, PowerShell, Service Application, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Delete SharePoint 2010/2013 Service Application using PowerShell. How to Delete a Service Application in SharePoint 2013: Go to SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site Navigate to Application Management >> Manage service applications In the Manage Service Applicatio…

Configure Variations Feature in SharePoint 2013 - Step by Step

October 20, 2015 Deployment Guides, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

What is Variation in SharePoint 2013? Variations feature provides multi-lingual support for SharePoint 2013 sites. It help us to manage multilingual sites by making the same content available to specific language audiences across different sites by maintaining customizable copies of the content …

Remove User from SharePoint Group using PowerShell

October 18, 2015 PowerShell, Security, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Users and Groups

Remove user from SharePoint group: From SharePoint Web interface, if you want to remove user from SharePoint group, Login as a SharePoint Administrator, navigate to: Click on Site Settings Gear icon >> Click on Site Settings From the Site settings page, Click on "People and Groups…

Hide "Upload" Button of a Document Library in SharePoint 2013

October 17, 2015 CSS, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Disable upload button in SharePoint document library! But why? Because, we wanted users to fill the form by creating new document from the New drop-down and not to upload any existing documents with Upload button. So we need to hide upload button in SharePoint 2013. Solution: C…

Copy Alerts from One SharePoint List or Library to Another - Using PowerShell

October 14, 2015 Alerts, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Copy Alerts from one SharePoint list to another list. Solution: Use this PowerShell script to copy alerts between SharePoint lists or libraries. My scenario is: We've a list with number of alerts created for various users. We copied that list to a new site through "Save…

PowerShell Error: Add-Type: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll' or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded

October 09, 2015 Errors, Known Issues, PowerShell, SharePoint

Problem: When trying to write a client side PowerShell script for SharePoint online, got an error: Error: Add-Type : Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Common Files\Micros oft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll' or one of its …

Copy List Items Between SharePoint Lists using PowerShell

October 06, 2015 Attachment, List, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Copy List Items Between SharePoint Lists using PowerShell One of our SharePoint list called "News" grown rapidly and wanted to archive its contents to an another list periodically. Solution: So the task is to copy list items between SharePoint Lists. Lets achieve it u…

Get All SharePoint Service Applications - IIS App Pools - Service Account Details

October 04, 2015 IIS, PowerShell, Service Application, SharePoint

From the IIS console, its tedious to find the application pools of SharePoint Service Application's, isn't it? So, lets use PowerShell to retrieve All service application's app pool and service account details. PowerShell to get all Service Application Names, Service App Pool a…

How to Copy a Site Collection in SharePoint?

October 04, 2015 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Site Collection

Requirement: Clone the Production SharePoint site collection to Test environment for UAT. Solution: While Copy-SPSite cmdlet on SharePoint 2013 or later serves the purpose, It can clone site collection only within the same web application. What if you want to copy site collection to another w…

Compare SharePoint List Items using PowerShell

October 01, 2015 PowerShell, SharePoint

Requirement: We've two task lists with hundreds of rows in it. Wanted to compare these two SharePoint Lists and extract the difference from both of them. Solution: Lets use PowerShell script to compare and extract the difference between SharePoint lists! Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.…

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