Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both ...
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how to find the user profile property scope which user has set on his mysite - SharePoint 2010?
How can I find the list of colleagues/Team-members for a SharePoint 2010 user? and how can i find the scope for a specific user profile property (eg..birthday--->Everyone, Interest--->My Team)which ...
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Powershell script to add Content Types
Very new to Powershell 1.0 on Sharepoint 2007. I've got a site collection with many subsites. These subsites all have a document library called Reviews. What I need to do is add a new content type ...
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556 views
updating credentials using powershell
I am in a position where service credentials change quite a lot, I would normally use central admin to change the credentials but quite often the application pool that runs that is using the same ...
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690 views
Migrating My Sites to new dedicated site host
We have taken over a site where My Sites are placed in the Intranet web application.
I want to migrate the My Sites to a dedicated host site.
From what i have been able to find out so far, I will ...
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Administering SharePoint with PowerShell
I have a limited knowledge on Powershell, but from what I've seen, it can be very useful in admin/dev tasks.
What would I have to develop to get a nice toolset for WSS/Stsadm administration?
Is ...
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Get document properties.Keys value
I'm iterating all lists in a site collection trying to get all metadata, their values and eventually count them. I'm not so far yet, but I'm stuck in getting the values from a documents (file) ...
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How to get all lists in a site collection along with their Guid and URL
I've created a Powershell script to get all the lists in my site with their Guids. This is working but I also want the script to the return the URL.
$_.Lists | ForEach-Object {Write-host ...
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how to access patches programatically
I know I can access the SharePoint-buildversion using
(Get-SPFarm).buildversion in PowerShell.
I also know that by accessing /_admin/PatchStatus.aspx from central administration I can view each ...
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Microsoft.FASTSearch.Powershell Snapin not available
On a Sharepoint 2010 Server, i tried running a script that needs to use Get-FASTSearchMetadataCategory.
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.FASTSearch.Powershell" returns an error, that the snap-in is unknown. ...
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Including Assembly in PowerShell Script
Apologies if I'm missing something really basic here but in all the tutorials I've read that discusses the use of set-fastsearchmetadatamanagedproperty, it mentions how it belongs to the ...
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How to import a library from Export-SPWeb outputs?
I am trying to understand how to restore an arbitrary library to an arbitrary site in an arbitary site collection - inspired by some future user announcing he accidentally deleted a document from the ...
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Add Administrator to User Profile Server via Powershell
I was recently directed to an article that explains how to add a user to the permissions list for the User Profile Service using Powershell, which worked a treat. [My original question]
I'm now ...
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Remove app from SharePoint with PowerShell
I have deployed an app to SharePoint 2013, but something went wrong during deployment. Now I cannot remove or redeploy this app.
Can I force remove this app with powershell or STSADM, like you can ...
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Is it possible to use powershell to change the content type of a page layout after its been uploaded to a masterpage gallery?
Im trying to automate as much of the upgrade I am working on and one of the manual steps is to change the page layout of 5 root webs of site collections, each of which has to have this new page layout ...
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525 views
How do I set the OSearch14 Service Account via PowerShell
I'm in the process of Scripting a deployment of SharePoint 2010 and FAST.
Normally to set the Service Account of a SharePoint service one would use the ProcessIdentity property, like so:
$procId = ...
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SharePoint 2010 People Picker Does Not Resolve USERS/GROUPS.Please Help!
I am Running SharePoint 2010 Site , recently we migrated Web App from Development Server to Production Server(Different Domain Controller). In Development Server I used to be able to Use People ...
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Deny user access from SharePoint Native but allow it from custom application
How can i restrict a user from entering SharePoint - unless he is using my custom application?
For example, a user tries to open http://Mysite , he gets an access denied error.
But as the same time, ...
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download profile pictures powershell way
I am using following powershell (that I got from here http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/download-all-the-profile-pictures-through-powershell-using-web-service/)so I can download all the ...
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powershell script to add a managed metadata column
I'm looking for a powershell script that allows me add metadata column in SharePoint list. Thanks
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Office 365 SharePoint, can you script (powershell) or code provisioning of the site?
I am trying to figure out if you can use Powershell with Commandlets to provision a new site.
Basically if a customer calls for our solution can I write script that sets it all up?
(Creating the site ...
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344 views
Connect all SSRS Reports in SharePoint library to DataSource using Powershell
We are migrating MOSS to SP2010 and have a library with hundreds of SSRS reports that use a Shared DataSource (in SharePoint Integrated mode.) Since the ReportServer database location has also ...
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Restoring SPSite not working with different versions
I'm having issues with restoring my .bak files to my own sharepoint environment due to version difference.
My version is currently:
Sharepoint Server with Enterprise Client Access License
Ms ...
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automatically create metadata properties in the search application
I want to create a number of metadata properties in the search application in sharepoint 2010. I don't want to do this myself. I know it is possible to create a powershell script to create the ...
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Powershell script for adding imported user profiles to SP group?
I've managed to import user profiles from our AD. Now I want to add all the imported user profiles into a specific SharePoint group, let's say Visitors, and doing this by using the People Picker takes ...
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Querying multiple lists with GetItems not returning viewfields
I have written a script to get the items of a specific list leveraging the GetListItems method, but I am now being asked to join multiple lists, so I believe I must use the GetItems method. The code ...
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Activating a WebApplication Scoped Feature for a particular WebApplication
I developed a SharePoint 2010 WSP that contains a custom HTTP Module for performing short-url redirects. The WSP also contains a WebApplication scoped feature that consists of a feature receiver that ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Install Site Template using Powershell script
I want to install site template in SharePoint 2010.
Basically i want to know how use install-spwebtemplate
wsp name : SPT_SiteTemplate.wsp
Name : SPT_SiteTemplate
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528 views
How to view what a user has access to with PowerShell?
A user has limited access but I don't know what for. How can I view what this user has access to?
I'm on WSS 3.
Does anyone know of a PowerShell script to perform this method?
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User not showing on People page although listed when using Powershell
I'm using SharePoint 2010 (14.0.4763.1000) and have a user that is not showing on the People page (_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=3). MembershipGroupId=3 is the Owner's Group.
When using ...
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Object Reference Not Set Error in SPImport.Run()
I'm trying to move my site from a server to another.
I exported my site using Export-SPWeb, moved the data to destination server and ran the function below: (Taken from here.)
function ...
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Powershell script to list LastContentModifiedDate
I'm a beginner to Powershell 1.0 and I'm looking to pull some information out of the Sharepoint 2007 farm as we start the upgrade to 2010 planning. This is what I'm wanting to do, but having some ...
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Updating a list column thro' a PowerShell script?
I have a sharepoint 2007 list and it has many items, I want to update a column in an item thro' a powershell script even if the item is current edited/locked by someone else.
Is it posssible?
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Update Custom Forms with Powershell
I'm trying to update custom forms of SharePoint lists in a large amount of SharePoint 2010 subsites with powershell.
I'm not quite sure what the correct approach is. The form itself can be found as ...
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Import-Spweb is changing the user id if the user does not exist in the organisation anymore
We had to restore a list (which has versionsing enabled) in our PROD enviornment SP 2010 August CU 2012. We used the following command metioned below:
Import-SPWeb http://example.com/projects/myList ...
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Error while running the Powershell script
I want to run the following script but getting the error "Unable to find type [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyConstants]"
#Add SharePoint PowerShell SnapIn if not already added
if ...
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560 views
Uploading a file using powershell and updating column values
I am trying to upload a file from a local drive to a sharepoint doc lib, this much I have been able to find, however, I also want to update a column relative to the file, foe example, I have a company ...
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How to add security to a page using powershell
I am new to SharePoint and am writing PowerShell scripts to create a number of libraries. Each library will be added as a list webpart on a webpart page for added security. Finally, the page is added ...
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1answer
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Warm-Up Script not writing to log file
I have been working on implementing the warm-up script from Ingo Karstein Warm-Up Script
The script runs without any issues, but the log file (.txt) is not being generated as expected. I have the ...
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290 views
Users cannot open workflow task (custom form) - Unexpected exception
I have created a custom approval task form for an approval workflow. It works fine for me as a site collection administrator, but for normal users (the users getting the task) there is an error ...
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creating site collections using SharePoint management shell 2013
I am creating Site Collections for Testing SharePoint. I am using Host Named Site Collection to do that instead of the path based site collection addressing.
For that
Got a reference to the HNSC ...
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How to change name and description website?
I need to create a script that creates a page based on a tamplate.
New-SPWeb -url http://site/project/project01 -template OFFILE#1 -name "01"
Import-SPWeb http://site/project/project01 -Path ...
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1answer
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Programatically update field/column name in a list on all sub sites [Powershell]
What I want to do is with a Powershell script programatically go through all subsites in a site collection and change a column name in a list from "Web" to "Site".
So in easier words:
Go through ...
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Filling a External Data field (BCS) in a list trough Powershell
I have a list of which one of the columns is of the "External Data" type, linked to a BCS service.
We called this column "Organisation", and when I check the generated fields in powershell (with ...
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1answer
291 views
How to access the web-application hosted on the another Farm using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell?
I am trying to access the web-application that is hosted on the another SharePoint 2010 Farm using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell cmdlets but it is failing with the below error message
$spsite = ...
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Editing property bag values using powershell
What is property bag in SharePoint 2010?
How do I retrieve values from a property bag and get/set the values using powershell?
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4answers
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List of databases used for a sharepoint 2010 farm?
How to find the list of databases are used by a SharePoint 2010 Farm, including content databases, service application databases and configuration database.
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use powershell to check whether or not a sharepoint list is a document library
I want to make some changes to all of the document libraries in a site collection, but not make changes to any other lists. In PowerShell, how can I check whether a list is a document library, or a ...
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How to set columns visible only in Display Form on a Column used by a Content Type
I have a column that we will call C. This Column is associated to a Content Type (CT).
If I go to the properties of the CT -> Column C I can set the column to be Facoltative or Hidden:
If I put it ...
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Powershell - Item Level Permission by Content Type
Here is the scenario. I only need to run this once as business team just decided their contents are confidential. User Group is "Marketing", will use OOTB "Contribute" and all of marketing items are ...
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Get all the machines in a SharePoint farm
I'm writing a really big script which will get a lot of info from my farm. I'd like to make it work dynamically, so I would need to:
Get all the database servers in the SharePoint farm
Get all the ...
