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Set IE Proxy Server with PowerShell
Today just a quick one-liner tip for PowerShell. Use this script to set a proxy server in IE Settings. I got the inspiration from Aymeric’s blog: Scripting : Toggle proxy server in IE settings with...
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scriptcs and SharePoint. How SharePoint can benefit?
Last Saturday I attended Leetspeak. Among many awesome speeches and presentations I discovered scriptcs. scriptcs lets you write C# code directly in the console, or execute scripts written with just...
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Count lines of code with PowerShell
Today I got a question: How many lines of code are there in our SharePoint solution? After a little search, I found that PowerShell is really a nice tool to count lines of code: How do you count lines...
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PowerShell: Get version and ProductId from an .app package
In my project I deploy some apps directly through the ObjectModel directly with PowerShell. The apps are built with TFS I have a script that installs or updates apps if there is a new version of the...
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PowerShell: Migrate field choices to a termset
In my current project we are migrating a custom sharepoint solution from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the improvements is that we migrate custom field choices to Managed Metadata. Choice...
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Debugging “What’s happening” in Communities
Recently an issue was reported about count mismatches in SharePoint 2013 Communities. The number of replies in category tiles sometimes is different compared to the community stats in the web part...
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A PowerShell one liner
PowerShell is powerful. You can write concise, well formulated, functional-style code. Recently I got the following quiz: You’ve got $100. You have to buy exactly 100 animal, at least 1 dog, 1 cat and...
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A presentation about PowerShell and SharePoint
Yesterday I had a little presentation about PowerShell basics in the SharePoint context. Here you can see the presentation I’ve published on slideshare. The text is in Swedish.
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Load git into PowerShell
Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell: The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window...
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Showing Birthdays and Job Anniversaries in the Newsfeed
In our project we have a requirement to show birthdays and job anniversaries in the Newsfeed. The solution is simple (when you know it) but there has not been any information about it online, until...
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Export SharePoint List Data To Xml through PowerShell
Today my colleague Johannes Milling wrote an awesome post: Export SharePoint List Data To XML Directly from the GUI He uses the old and forgotten RPC-based web service owssvr.dll (that has existed...
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My PowerShell Profile
It has been a while I last worked with PowerShell. I had my custom profile where I had my own prompt and some other customizations. Now I cannot find it anymore. I’ll start with the new one and I am...
View ArticleGet totals from a list view using PowerShell
Today I will share a short script for getting totals from a list view in SharePoint. Imagine this scenario: you have set up a list view with totals and you want get the totals every day for statistics...
View ArticleOptimizing lookups in PowerShell
Have you had a PowerShell script that contains two bigger arrays and you wanted merge the information. It can become quite slow if you need to search for every item from array A through all items in...
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Is an M365 Group a Yammer Community
Nowadays a Yammer Community gets a corresponding Microsoft 365 Group (Office 365 Group, Unified Group). In your work as an SPO Admin, you might need to differentiate “ordinary” Modern Team Sites from...
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Setting up a HelloWorld Azure Alert
Azure Alerts are awesome for monitoring of solutions in Azure. If you are about to set up your first Alert Rules in Azure, then it’s a guide for you. Configuring alert rules can be quite intimidating...
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A cost effective way of running legacy scripts in the cloud
Have you also got some old huge scripts that run on a server locally? Have you also considered moving them to the cloud? Here comes an idea of how to do it quickly and easy. In my case I have some...
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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell
Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute...
View ArticleSites.Selected and Governance
The new permission in Graph API – Sites.Selected – is a step in the right direction. Since long we have been looking for ways of scoping the accesses to live up to the least privilege principle. It...
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A powershell script for activating an eligible role assignment in Azure AD
Recently my role assignments in Azure AD were switched from permanent to eligible ones. This is part of PIM – Privileged Identity Management, you can read more about it on MS Docs: Start using...
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