SharePoint Online: How to Create a Subsite using PowerShell?

Requirement: Create a Subsite in SharePoint Online using PowerShell. How to Create a Subsite in SharePoint Online? If you are a SharePoint administrator or site owner, eventually you will need to create a subsite. In this blog post, I’ll walk through the process of creating a subsite in SharePoint Online using PowerShell…

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SharePoint Online: Add-Remove Fields to List View using PowerShell

Requirement: SharePoint Online PowerShell to Update a List View. How to Add or Remove Columns in SharePoint Online List View? SharePoint Online list view enables you to arrange the information in the way that best suits your needs. You can customize a SharePoint Online view to add or remove fields from it….

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SharePoint Online: Enable Versioning on All List and Libraries using PowerShell

Requirement: Enable Versioning on all lists in a SharePoint Online site. How to Enable Versioning on a List or Library in SharePoint? The Version History feature in SharePoint allows you to access a previously saved copy of a document or list item. By default, versioning is enabled on your document library in…

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SharePoint Online: Delete a Subsite using PowerShell

Requirement: SharePoint Online PowerShell to Remove a Subsite. How to Delete a Subsite in SharePoint Online? Is there a subsite in your SharePoint Online environment that is no longer needed? Maybe it was created by mistake or is no longer being used. If so, we can delete it and free up some…

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Get “Created By” User Email, Display Name, Login ID in SharePoint using PowerShell

Requirement: Sometimes, You may have to retrieve the user details such as the User’s Email, Account ID, Full name, etc., from the Created by field. Here is the PowerShell script to get created by field values in SharePoint. PowerShell to Get “Created By” Field Value in SharePoint:

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How to Reload SharePoint Page Every 60 Seconds Automatically with JavaScript?

Requirement: I was required to reload the Intranet SharePoint site’s home page for a monitoring dashboard every five minutes. Solution: Use this JavaScript placed in a Script editor or content editor web part to refresh a SharePoint page every 60 seconds. Here is how to refresh the current page in SharePoint, step…

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How to Create External Lists from SQL Server using BCS in SharePoint 2016?

Business Data Connectivity Services enables SharePoint 2013/2016 and Office 2013/2016 clients to interact with data that doesn’t live in SharePoint. BCS allows you to integrate external data into SharePoint. The external list provides a familiar list-like user experience. Let’s see how to create an External List in SharePoint that grabs the data…

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Create Business Data Connectivity Service (BCS) Application in SharePoint 2016

The Business Data Connectivity (BDC or BCS) service application in SharePoint 2016 enables us to connect and manipulate with an external line of business data sources such as SQL Server, web services, WCF Service, SOAP, REST Service Connection, XML file connection, OAuth and other proprietary data sources that are accessed by custom…

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Create BDC (BCS) Service Application in SharePoint 2013/2016 using PowerShell

Business Data Connectivity Services service application provides centralized infrastructure to connect and manipulate with external line of business data sources through external list concept. Here is the PowerShell script to create Business Data Connectivity Service Application in SharePoint 2016. PowerShell script to create BDC Service Application in SharePoint 2013 / 2016: This…

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SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Create a List View

SharePoint Online Views helps to organize columns together and present the data with sort, group, and filtering capabilities. Views can be either Private or Public – A public view is available to all users, whereas a private view is available only to the user who created it. When you create a list…

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