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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Application DLL replaced sometimes in 14 Hives feature folder
I deploy Infopath forms using powershell script. After deployment, dlls of my deployed application appears in 14 hives/feature/guidfeaturefolder After some modifications when i deploy again the same ...
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check for password protected office documents
I have a need to check through a site collection and find all password protected office documents. My organisation has decided on a policy where password protection on documents will no longer be ...
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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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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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Move-SPUser : pixels
Migrating users from one domain to another, I get this error on a couple of users. The migration still seems to occur.
Move-SPUser : pixels
At D:\UserMigration\MigrateUsers.ps1:10 char:28
+ ...
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How do you Import a list item from a .cmp file using powershell?
I have implemented the code located at this link to export and import a list to a cmp file using powershell and the SPDeployment functions. While trying to better understand this code I came to the ...
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Export the Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 using Powershel
Is there any way to export the Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 using Powershell?
The following link shows an example of the data I would like to retrieve, both on (Web collection and site ...
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Remote PowerShell Script
I have server 1 (application that the script) (dax-sp) and server 2 (sharepoint) (sp-sp)
Script on server 1 (ScriptStart.ps1)
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 2000
$pwd = ...
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Why is my SPD 2010 workflow running twice?
I've got a support case for a client, and they have a super simple workflow on a list. It simply sends an email to a user from a person field, whenever an item is added to the list. The client ...
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Getting Null returned from taxonomy field in PowerShell?
I am trying to update a metadata field when adding an item to document library. All the other columns are updating. The error is on this line and basically $taxfield is returning null.
$taxField = ...
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PowerShell error when comparing the fields titles
I've wrote a simple script which will loop through all the webs in all the site collections store all the field id's into the hashtable next with their display names. Later interating
throught lists ...
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Changing permission level of a document from contribute to read for members
I need a help .... with a powershell script.
I have a document and i need to modify the existing permission level for members from 'contribute' to 'read'.
Anyone has any idea how to do that?
In ...
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Content Replacement
I have a problem with content deployment that I need to fix using a script to replace content throughout the site. SharePoint handles relative urls already but editors have to use an internal url ...
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New-SPProjectWebInstance error
One part of my now rather large install&configure script for SharePoint is giving me much grief.
If i type the command in the shell it works perfect, saying something about "provisioning added to ...
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Getting the following error: Another topology activation is in progress
I am using Search Server Express 2010. I am creating Search application using PowerShell scripts.
After creating crawl and query components, i am activating them.
First activating crawl component
...
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how to change Catalog settings of a list by powershell
I would like to change catalog settings of Pages list to make it akt like a Catalog by using powershell. It includes adding Title as "Catalog Item URL Fields" and choosing a Term Set for "Navigation ...
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Get-SPSite : There was no endpoint listening at securitytoken.svc
Get-SPSite : There was no endpoint listening at
http://mydomain.com:32843/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/securitytoken.svc
that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect
...
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Activating features like FeatureManifest order
I am deploying a solution using powershell. When I activate the features of the solution some of them have dependencies and I get an error when using Enable-SPFeature command. In the package of my ...
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One or more field types are not installed properly, how to check in which field is it failing?
I am getting this error in a timer job that I did not develop.
Error: One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields. ...
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Powershell: Move up arrow in user profile property doesn't work
I have used a PS script to create a User Profile Property within a User Profile Section and setting a DisplayOrder in that section.
The Script works as expected, the problem is that when I click on ...
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Upload to SP 2013 Document Library with metadata, Powershell problem
As a Proof of Content Assignment i was asked to implement a SharePoint 2013 Document Library to a Local Program. I'm relatively new to Power-shell and have tried to upload .docx files and succeeded.
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Sharepoint 2010 upgrade failed
The health analyzer needed a "Product/path installation or server upgrade required" so I ran the powershell script psconfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd ...
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Indexed columns and the change of locale (SharePoint 2010)
If I change the locale under regional settings in SharePoint 2010, I get an exception like this:
The column "column1" in the list or library "list1" has been marked for indexing. Please turn off ...
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Workflow history no longer accessible-object reference error WrkStat page
The workflow history was >6m records, so I have redirected all workflows to rite to other custom history logs while running a job to purge 1k records every 15 minutes. When I attempt to check the ...
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Enumerate BCS Object Permissions
Hi I am looking for a method via PowerShell to enumerate the various ETC's that have been created to determine who currently has access. I realize that I can do this via the front end, however I need ...
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Fails to create publishing site collection in scripted web application
I have a problem on my SharePoint 2013 farm. I have a script to create web applications in my farm, but when I do I cant create publishing site collections within that web application.
So, the ...
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Upgrading Sharepoint 2010 CMP file to 2013
I have exported a team site from Sharepoint 2013 into a CMP file. However, when I try tp run Import-SPWeb, I get the Version package is different. I am looking for anyway possible to upgrade this cmp ...
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New-SPSite gives ERROR: Failed to OpenThreadToken, LastError=1008 in Timer job
I have a timer job that is running some powershell.
The script creates a content database and then attempts to create a site collection. If run from powershell prompt the script works fine. If I ...
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List View Webpart is not getting added while activating feature using powershell
I created a feature and on activation of it I am trying to add list view webpart.
Using powershell command activating feature and it gets activated but List View Web part it is not getting added on to ...
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Backup-SPFarm not respecting ErrorActionPreference
I'm trying to setup a script in Jenkins to backup my SharePoint server. The problem I'm encountering is that it Backup-SPFarm is not correctly returning an error. So my $ErrorActionPreference is being ...
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ReSynced Users redirecting to MySites
A while ago, we disabled MySites on our SP2010 farm, so when you clicked on a user's name you viewed their profile page instead of their MySite.
We also had several users who had incomplete ...
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UpdateFarmCredentials: PowerShell command line error?
stsadm –o updatefarmcredentials –userlogin "[DOMAIN\USERNAME]" –password "[PASSWORD]"
I've tried to run the above command with the " character and without, neither works.
The error is 'Command line ...
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Multiple links in Quick Launch puzzle and delete a specific link in quick launch with powershell
For some reason when a page is created, sometimes the entire site crashes. I'm not sure why this is happening. We have publishing switched on.
What I found was that the page has multiple entries in ...
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UPS Sync started from powershell script / web service
I have a web service that is kicked off from a workflow. The web service runs a powershell script that kicks off the User Profile Synchronization job.
The powershell script works perfectly if I run ...
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Edit UserProfileProperties in Sharepoint 2010 using PowerShell
As I mentioned above I want to modify given UserProfileProperties.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/anavijai/modify-user-profile-properties-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell/
This is what I ...
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EnsureUser returns none existing users using ldapprovider
I'm writing a PowerShell script that adds users to a SharePoint site. To check if the user exists I'm calling the EnsureUser. But my issue is that the when calling this method with a ldap membership ...
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Update KPI Lists Script
I have about 400 KPI lists, and an error in one of the KPIs on each list. Is there a way I can update all of the lists automatically? I cannot use .NET, but a shell script is within an acceptable ...
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Automated PowerShell task cant create list items
I have a powershell script that gathers some data and looks to upload that data to SharePoint. Im uploading the data via 2 methods, as an excel spreadsheet, and as a list item in a custom list.
When ...
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Problem with adding webparts with limitedWebManager.ImportWebPart PowerShell
When creating a web in Visual Studio it generates a web part where the namespace and the class name is the same. I'm thinking that this is giving me a problem with the limitedWebManager.ImportWebPart ...
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Workflow failed to run after pause - SP2010
I am trying to fix a paused workflow issue following this KB Article from Microsoft.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2674684
However, when I try to run the powershell command I get this error as ...
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appying permissions using powershell on Project Server 2010
We have a PWA that has 100 project sites, each with broken permissions, on the root site there is a sharepoint group with 4 users, named "Admins (Microsoft Project Server)". Some how the Admins group ...
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Finding which site collection has output cache enabled through powershell
I have a SharePoint 2010 production farm where a Web Application running on port 90 always ends up with heavy memory usage , even during non-peak hours. My guess is some site has output cache enabled ...
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How do you prevent “Disable-SPFeature : Cannot complete this action. Please try again.” errors?
When I try to run this cmdlet, I receive the following errors (only sometimes):
Disabling feature: SPFeatureDefinition Name=FeatureDefinition/b89234a6-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-200dd03e1fdd ( ...
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Unable to create inheriting content types - A duplicate content type was found
I'm trying to create several content types via code, and they are all inheriting from a custom content type which was previously deployed.
Here's the weird part, i can deploy once from Visual studio ...
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Methods to obtain a list/map of permissions throughout the web application?
Are there any scripts that list out the permissions for all the site collections>>sites>>lists and libraries within a web application?
My objective is to obtain a list showing inherited as well as ...
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PowerShell Remoting Sharepoint 2010 Error
I use PS Remoting 2.0 for deploy WSP projects in Sharepoint 2010 in Windows 2008 server (named DESMOSSW03). My client is Windows 7 64 bits (named MyUser).
I use this credentials ...
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Update Managed Data Source Stored Credentials with Powershell?
I have over 200 sites and I am using SSRS reporting. Each site has 20 reports. When the credentials change this is an obvious headache. Is there a powershell script to update the username/password of ...
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Gives Error while assing permissions to group
New-Object : Cannot find type [Microsoft.Sharepoint.SPRoleAssignment]: make sure the assembly containing this type is loaded.
Note: i have added the snap-in as follows
Add-PSSnapin ...
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Stop Powershell Script asociated with list sharepoint
I created the next script with powershell and it updates all the items in a list:
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell"
$site = Get-SPWeb -identity "http://mywebsite"
$list = ...
