How to Find Who Created a Site in SharePoint?
Ever wanted to find out who has created a SharePoint site? Sorry! There is no way to get who created a site from the SharePoint user interface! You can’t get “Created By” or “Created On” values anywhere. But PowerShell is our rescuer! Let’s see who has created a SharePoint site using PowerShell:
Find Out Who Created a SharePoint Site
Just run the below PowerShell script to find who has created a SharePoint site:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Get the Web
$web = Get-SPWeb "https://portal.crescent.com/sites/Sales"
#Get Site Creator and Created Date
write-host "Site Created by:"$web.Author
Write-host "Created on:" $web.Created
This PowerShell gets you who created a site collection or subsite.
SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Get Who Created Site
Similarly, to find who created a site in SharePoint Online, use this PowerShell script:
#Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"
#Set Parameters
$SiteURL="https://Crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
#Setup Credentials to connect
$Cred= Get-Credential
$Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($Cred.Username, $Cred.Password)
#Setup the context
$Ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteURL)
$Ctx.Credentials = $Credentials
#Get the web
$Web=$Ctx.Web
$Ctx.Load($Web)
$Ctx.Load($Web.Author)
$Ctx.ExecuteQuery()
#Find who created a site
$Web.Author | Select LoginName, Email, Title
You can also get the site created date and time as:
$Web.Created.DateTime
PnP PowerShell to Get the Creator of a Site
To find out who created a site in SharePoint Online, use this PnP PowerShell:
$SiteURL = "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/HR"
#Connect to Site
Connect-PnPOnline $SiteURL -Interactive
#Get the Web
$Web = Get-PnPWeb
#Get the author - who has created the site
Get-PnPProperty -ClientObject $Web -Property Author
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Hello, I tried the code for sharepoint online, but get error message below.
Cannot find an overload for “Load” and the argument count: “1”.
At line:19 char:1
+ $Ctx.Load($Web.Author)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodCountCouldNotFindBest