SharePoint 2010 Delete a list by using Powershell
If you have a corrupted list which should be deleted this might be helpful to delete the list. Just open Powershell on your server and use this script to delete the list: Get-SPWeb...
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View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Move a Site Collection to another Content Database
Ever wanted to move a single Site Collection from Content Database A to Content Database B? Well, the decision is sometimes really easy why to do so. If you are running out of free space in your...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 change permissions on lists using Powershell
It might getting interesting if your customer needs functionalitiy like freeze or publish documents, whole site or webs or just special lists. If the process needs something that can stop users from...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Powershell read lookup or person field & add value
Powershell is great, powershell can do really great things if you know how to. So i would like to share some experiences with you. Basic: Get the list and the item of your list: $Web = Get-SPWeb...
View ArticleSP2010 Query Agenda items from Meeting Workspace does not return values
I think that might be interesting. If you query a list – it doesn’t matter what kind of list – it returns the desired values… normally… BUT there is one exception. If you use the template Meeting...
View ArticleSharePoint Restore a deleted Site Collection
It might not be often that your customers or colleagues ask you “what template did you choose for the site XY?” and you ask them back “Why?” thinking that he might want to create a second site of this...
View ArticleSharePoint Information about the server configuration
If you start reading this, you might got into a situation where you want to build up a second farm which has the same configuration as your first farm. But farm 1 is hardly documented or even nothing...
View ArticleSharePoint Think about security or how to get the farm account password
Did you ever thought it should not matter if my colleague gets temporarly remote access to my SharePoint farm which is only a test environment? Well, let me show you a nice example why it should...
View ArticleSharePoint Powershell Remove and add Solutions
Here is just some small scripts from powershell to remove and install SharePoint Solutions. Uninstall-SPSolution –Identity <nameofwsp>.wsp Remove-SPSolution –Identity...
View ArticleSharePoint List all Sites and Subsites of a webapplication using powershell
There might be one day when you think you need a list of all sites and subsites and sub-subsites of one of your web application. Well you can do this by code or by powershell. I prefer powershell as...
View ArticleSharePoint Repair lookup columns which are not connected to a list
A story from real life. There was a list to store many elements which were basically used for some other lists by using lookup columns. After this big important list was deleted and recovered from...
View ArticleWhat you should know about Word Automation Services in SharePoint to convert...
In multiple customer projects we had the requirement to convert word documents to pdf. There are really many ways to achieve this by using third party tools, OpenXML SDK and pdf rendering software or...
View ArticleRun a Powershell Script with Task Scheduler
Powershell gives you many options to administrate your farm, but it also can help you to get certain jobs done regularly. In one of my customer projects it was necessary to copy a certain document from...
View ArticleSharePoint Getting Log information for a datetime span with Powershell
That should be cool for SharePoint Administrators. If you would like to get all log information from the ULS log of SharePoint you can use this cool snippet with Powershell and insert the needed...
View ArticleSharePoint Create Sites based on Site Collection with Powershell
In SharePoint 2010 and 2013 it is possible to create Site Collections by the UI, using C# Coding or Powershell. In one of our scenarios we had to prepare a web application in which each site collection...
View ArticleSharePoint: Send Mail by using Powershell
Powershell has great functionalities. One of those is the sendmail function. We used it like a timer job for reminding people to do something special. We built a small script which checks certain list...
View ArticleSharePoint Managed Metadata Service is not available
At one of our customers we had the error message, that the managed metadata service or the connection is not available. I am not sure, but it may be due to an update we installed a few days earlier. I...
View ArticlePowershell Import Data from csv with special characters
Often companies using Excel to work on different data and information. Sometimes these data is exported from a external system like SAP or other line of business applications. A way to work together on...
View ArticleSharePoint Delete Items and files directly or using recycle bin by using...
When you use a Powershell Script to work on SharePoint List items or Files you can do a lot of things. One of those things for example is deleting items which are not needed anymore. Therefore you can...
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