Disable Share and Follow button

Question

I followed the steps below to disable the "share" and "follow" buttons in Sharepoint:

Disable Share Button

1. Settings > Site Settings > User and Permission : Site Permission

2. Click Access request Settings > Uncheck allow accesst request

Disable Follow button

1. Settings > Site Settings > Site Actions : Manage Site Features

2. Deactivate feature : Following Content

Is there also a way to do this with a PowerShell script?

Answer 1

This script goes through the hierarchy and disables the Following Content feature in every WebSite. You get an error message for every site where the feature is not active or missing. This can be ignored

$w = Get-SPWeb http://MySharePointURL | ForEach{ $_.URL }
Get-SPFeature -Web $w |%{ Disable-SPFeature -Identity "FollowingContent" -URL $w -Confirm:$false}

This script disables the “Allow access request” setting under Site Settings -> Site Permissions -> Allow access request for all Sites and SubSites und the configured URL

$Webapp = Get-SPWebApplication "http://MySharePointURL"
ForEach ($site in $webapp.Sites)
{ForEach ($web in $site.AllWebs | where {$_.RequestAccessEnabled -and $_.Permissions.Inherited -eq $false})
{$web.RequestAccessEmail=""
write-host $web.Title, $web.URL updated}}

Source: Deactivate social feature MySite, Newsfeed, OneDrive, Sync, Share & Follow in SharePoint 2013

Answer 2

Disable Below Feature :

Disable-SPFeature -Identity "FollowingContent" -Url http:/sp/site/web