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bulk operations like moving a group of files to a different folder or library, or a mass rename or selective delete.

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How can I quickly Delete the contents of a SharePoint List View

I've got a SharePoint with a view called Retention that has around half a million entries, I want to delete the entries in the view from SharePoint as they are no longer required but I've not been ...
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Can I Perform a Bulk Import to Sharepoint Contacts App?

I am rolling out MS Teams for a small business, and now need to make all our contacts available to all users via Teams. Our client list is maintained in our main business tool, WorkflowMax, from which ...
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How can I bulk delete 1800 folders?

I have a colleague who has written a powershell script to read URLs from a CSV file and create empty folders at those locations... 1800 of them. The problem is they used their own named developer ...
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Bulk move from sp online to onedrive

So I have a need to migrate thousands of user files from sharepoint obkine to onedrive. Basically the company migrated their drive shares to sharepoint including user accounts. Now they want to move ...
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How to save bulk records in SharePoint List using JSOM

I have weird issue saving multiple records to SharePoint List via JSOM using below code where sometimes most of the records were saved and sometimes were not. Is there any best practice to save ...
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Update lookup column via CSV. Powershell Erro

Using SharePoint 2016 I am trying to update lookup column in a document library via CSV using below PowerShell: it only updating few and giving below error on rest of the items. The CSV and Doc ...
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Upload bulk images to Picture Library and add Keywords at the same time (bulk key wording)

I know you can drag and drop multiple images into the Picture library (SharePoint 2013), but is there a way to then say, I want all of these images to have 'x' keyword? Background.... I'm trying to ...
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What is the Best Options available to Send bulk emails using Power Automate?

I have the requirement where I need to send 120K emails to external users. The mapping of the users and templates will be stored in the SharePoint List. I already checked few limitations like Send ...
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Is it possible to undo group bulkload of users in SharePoint

I added about 175 users into the wrong group in our SharePoint site. Is it possible to "undo" the action? The bigger challenge is that I did not make a list of the existing members before adding the ...
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How to delete multiple list items in SharePoint Online?

Is it possible to delete multiple items in SharePoint Online. I mean more than 5k items with 2 clicks. Thanks
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Bulk item Insert/update in SharePoint list using JavaScript

I want to add items in bulk (around 13000 entries) into the SharePoint list using the JavaScript. For this I have already user CSOM Client Context Batch insert code and also I tried the SP.Services() ...
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Bulk edit for large number of files not working?

I'm on Sharepoint Online, and I have a document library of about 1600 files. I have about 1000 files that are Unassigned in a certain column that I want to change from Unassigned to some other ...
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Bulk import hundreds of documents into new document library and retain all links

Is there a way to bulk load hundreds of MS Word documents and retain all hyperlinks within each document?
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How long does it take to insert 150000 items in list Using CSOM?

I have a CSOM desktop application adding huge data in the list from a excel sheet. Its is taking 5 to 6 hours to upload 150000 entries(Not files). Does it take so long or can we improve performance. ...
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How to create a list with many choice fields, without having to do it one by one?

I need to create a SharePoint list with ~200 columns. Each column has a different name, and they all are choice types (with the same choice list values; same default value). Is there a way to do it ...
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Limits and Boundaries of SharePoint Online for Bulk operations

Just want to know what is the Limits and Boundaries of SharePoint Online for Bulk operations. Is there any authentic document I can refer? I am trying to insert 20,000 items with 5 text fields in a ...
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Is it possible to update a Document Library's property column using SQL?

I'm a newbie with SharePoint so apologies if my terminology is a bit shaky. I've got a situation where the "Title" column associated with all documents in a Document Library (SharePoint 2013) needs ...
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How to save CSV data to SharePoint 2013 list without iterating through the each record using JavaScript/REST?

I am having CSV with more than 3500 records. My need is to import the CSV data to SharePoint 2013 custom list. I have to achieve this programmatically. I have already tried some bulk operations/...
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Bulk Edit "Send membership requests to the following e-mail address" 2013

I've been a lurker on here occasionally and now seek some assistance for an answer I can't find please. I work for TAFE NSW which is in the process of separating from the NSW Dept of Education. Part ...
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Setting up Bulk App Deployment on SharePoint 2013

I'm trying to perform an App Deployment to all the site in a Site Collection using the SharePoint 2013 deployment feature Tenancies and deployment scopes for SharePoint Add-ins I'm unable to see the ...
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Upload bulk Metadata for document in Document Library

I have a document library with more than 10K documents in SharePoint Online Environment. Each document is having unique document name Now I want to upload metadata of 5 columns in it for each ...
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Error in running power shell with Get-SPWeb for SharePoint Online

I am to run following script on SharePoint Online Management Shell, to bulk upload documents with metadata, but getting error(below screen shots) Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -...
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SharePoint 2013 List corruption Bulk Update

I'm getting lots of complaint from end users saying that SharePoint list performs a bulk update with hundreds of records without touching/editing or even accessing the list. I have checked if any ...
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How do I update the Scheduling End Date on multiple pages?

SharePoint 2013 problem I hope you can help with. I need to renew a large number of pages in one go, as quickly and easily as possible. The Quick Edit function allows me to change our date columns ...
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Updating SharePoint(2010) List from Access 2010 - Error Executing Bulk Query

I've been having an issue running this query in an Access 2010 application. The issue arises when the end-user clicks a button that executes this query. UPDATE [Renewal Stop Request] SET [Renewal ...
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Update SharePoint Online User Profile Properties (SPS-Birthday) via Powershell

our current on-prem enviorment uses a external field to hold the employees birthday, this is then mapped to SPS-Birthday (on-prem). We have a SP Online instance to and I would like to get this ...
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Deleting list items with ProcessBatchData using PowerShell

I am trying to delete items in bulk and keep getting this error message: <Results><Result ID="" Code="-2130575312"> <ErrorText>Invalid file name. The file name you specified could ...
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Bulk delete SharePoint lists

I have been scraping my head for a while thinking of what is the best practice for deleting a large amount of lists, approximately 8000 lists. I have developed a PowerShell script that simply loops ...
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Export all lists to excel

I have three different list seperated by Area (NY, NJ, and CT) is there a way to build a report in the database that will pull all records from all lists? I exported all three to excel one by one, but ...
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Apply Require Check Out Feature to all available sites' libraries

I have a task to enable the 'Require Check Out' feature on each document library on all sites we have. See the picture below: There are about 20 sites in our site collection and each site has only ...
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Error message in Datasheet View

I keep getting the two error message when trying to copy/paste or use the autofill or fill down options on a list in datasheet view. Datasheet bulk edit option is turned on and all columns which ...
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Batch or Bulk delete of groups under a single SPWeb

Can someone help me with a powershell or C# code to do a Bulk delete of groups on a SharePoint site? I already know about this code: $site = Get-SPweb "http://root/locations/site" foreach($group in $...
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Sharepoint 2010 Bulk Change Document Owner

Is there a method to change the Document owner for multiple documents in a document library with versioning? We have a large number of documents which are assigned to a user who no longer belongs to ...
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How to delete more then one record in view

I am trying to delete more then records but I am not sure how, I know in SharePoint 2010 you can edit in datasheet view and easily delete them but how do I do it in 2007?
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How to bulk upload a site template (solution) to multiple site collections

We've multiple site collections with customized site templates (or solutions). Is it possible to change all the solution (in all the site collections) at once when the template has been updated? ...
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Problem with bulk items insert in SPList (works fine for 200 but not if item exceeds )

var itemArray = []; for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { var items = data[i].split(","); downloadID = items[0].trim(); noOfDownloads = items[1]; ...
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Bulk Create folders in document library using client object model

I want to create folder on SharePoint document library using client object model (C#). Below is the code which does that. ContentTypeCollection listContentTypes = list.ContentTypes; clientContext....
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Bulk data upload in SharePoint Form Library

I have a newly created Form management system(form Library) in SharePoint online. Prior to this the data was used to maintain in Excel sheets. We need to upload this old data into new Form library as ...
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Bulk Create Document sets inside a document library

I want to create multiple items using power shell in one Document library. This document library has content type as 'document set' so every item created inside this library must be a Document set. ...
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Can you bulk paste more then 100 records in edit mode?

I need to replace data in a few columns from my excel sheet into my SharePoint List. I have 24000 records and want to bulk copy and paste.... I am only able to do 100 at a time, because when I do ...
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Is there way to bulk paste more then 100 records in edit mode?

I need to replace data in a few columns from my excel sheet into my sharepoint List. I have 24000 records and want to bulk copy and paste.... I am only able to do 100 at a time, because when I do ...
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item adding event receiver failes to trigger in bulk items inserting

Currently am developing an item adding event in event receiver for a custom list. The list is updated using datasheet view, usually by adding bulk items (ex : 50 items ) to list using datasheet view. ...
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Send to or copy multiple documents

Is it possible to use the feature "copy" or "send to" for multiple documents? We can't work with "open in explorer", because we need the filter option in our library. Is there a code or tool for this ...
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Bulk updates to SharePoint Lists

I was recently assigned to make changes to several SharePoint lists that store content for a public facing web site. Due to the SharePoint settings or my VM’s Internet Explorer settings I could not ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Bulk Upload List Data that contains Managed Metadata (Terms)

I have a list that contains a few columns of type Managed Metadata and want to upload a bunch of data (records) to the list. I understand that you can't do this within the Datasheet View of the list ...
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Bulk-Edit in external lists (Sharepoint 2010)

I try to provide bulk editing for external lists. I heard that the datasheet view is a convenient tool, but it is not enabled for external lists. Is there any way to get an easy, user-friendly bulk ...
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Temporarily generate Office Document using Template and Lists from the SP library (SP2010 Foundation)

We use SharePoint Foundation 2010 Server for planing IT courses, where we have different lists for participants and for different courses. We also have all course certificates in one library. What we ...
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Importing/uploading files from file share to SP 2010 Doc Lib using CSV

Can someone please provide a good link (or if you already have a powershell working) that can import files from file share into SharePoint document library using a cvs flat file. I have about 20 ...
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Bulk Update of SharePoint Group Properties?

Specifically, I am looking for a way to change the "Who can view the membership of the group?" setting for multiple groups. Any built-in methods? or does it require custom code? Examples of custom ...
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How do I check in a LOT of files all at once?

I put a lot of documentation on our SharePoint site, and it all lists as being Checked Out To me. How do I check all of those files in, in one shot?
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