Today I needed to create an array of all the dates in a data range in PowerShell. It’s a simple little thing. Maybe I should have asked Github Copilot, but I’m old skool, so I wrote it myself. (I also haven’t gotten used to having a virtual assistant!) The reason I even needed to do…
You might be surprised by the title of this post. Isn’t our goal to get everyone’s content *into* SharePoint? Usually that’s the case, for sure. But many times, in the course of a migration from an older (usually on premises) version of SharePoint, we identify whole sites or branches of subsites that simply don’t have…
PnP.PowerShell is one of my favorite tools of the trade. I’ve had to set up multiple machines for myself or others for this lately, and I always find myself looking for the fastest path to glory. Usually, it takes about 9 articles and 15 blind alleys, so I figured I’d capture what seems to work…
At Sympraxis, we often work with clients who have been using SharePoint for a long time. In many of these cases, they have been using SharePoint basically as a cloud-based file server. At some point in the past, they have done a lift and shift from “on premises” servers (wherever they may live) into SharePoint…
When you create a Team Site in SharePoint, you have an option to set the Team Site as: Public – anyone in the organization can access this site, or Private – only members can access this site Many people don’t know what the effect this setting has – I need to remind myself from time…
One of my clients who doesn’t have a blog came up with a good fix the other day. Since he didn’t have a place to put it, he offered it to me to post. Have you ever deleted a Content Type from the Content Type Hub which you had previously published – without unpublishing it…
As our tenants evolve, we end up renaming sites and/or changing their URLs. When we change the URL of a site in the SharePoint Admin Center, the URL changes, just like we asked. SharePoint also leaves the old site in place, but converts it into a Redirect Site. So if we had a site at…
Another day, another chunk of PowerShell. Sometimes when we iteratively build out our information architecture, we’re over-zealous. It seems like we need a set of Site Columns to maintain metadata on lists or libraries, but in the end, we decide we want to trim away a few of the Site Columns we’ve created. Or, maybe…
This isn’t rocket science, but it’s something I do often enough that I want to lodge the PowerShell in a post instead of continuing to rewrite it. When we are building an Intranet, we often want to grant permissions for all the Communication Sites to a small set of people during the testing process. This…
This should be one of the most obvious tools in the toolkit. PnP PowerShell is awesome, and we so often want to retrieve a set of items in a list. Get-PnPListItem is the magic cmdlet to do so. This post is yet another of the many where I get to admit being an idiot about…