Wednesday, 6 September 2017

Update site logo on all SharePoint sites in a site collection

Update site logo on all SharePoint sites in a site collection

Hi there - I used the script below to update the site logo on a bunch of SharePoint Site Collections today - hope it proves useful to you

 ## Set up the variables

$spWeb = Get-SPWeb $SiteURL
$logopath = "C:\Scripts\Logo\logo_SPsites.png"

Write-Host("- Uploading and updating site logo") -ForegroundColor Magenta


## Creating instance of Folder
$spFolder = $spWeb.GetFolder("SiteAssets")

## Getting the file on Disk that we want to upload
$file = Get-Item $logopath

## Uploading the file the the Site Assets library

$null = 
$spFolder.Files.Add("SiteAssets/logo_SPsites.png",$file.OpenRead(),$false)
   

## Set the logo on all webs in the site:      

$sitelogo="$siteurl/$spFolder/ERIS_logo_SPsites.png"

$Site=$SiteURL

$Sites=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($Site)

foreach($web in $Sites.Allwebs) {

$web.SiteLogoUrl=$sitelogo

$web.Update()}


$Sites.Dispose()

###########################################################################

That's it!

Monday, 4 September 2017

Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology: The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error

OK So after moving the search index location when I tried to set the topology I got this cryptic error:


First try a Reboot!

If that doesn't work then try again - this time with more available RAM - if command doesn't fail immediately then most likely it's going to run:

This was basically a low resource error

Sunday, 9 April 2017

PowerShell remoting - create folder on remote servers

Preparation

Read-Host -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File C:\Scripts\<username>\<username>_pwd.txt

Variables

$SPserver = "<servername>"

$username = "\"
$password = Get-Content C:\Scripts\<username>\<username>_pwd.txt | ConvertTo-SecureString

Credentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $username, $password

Connection

#Create remote session to SP server
$session=New-PSSession -ComputerName $SPserver -Credential $credentials

Create DIR

Invoke-Command -Session $session -ArgumentList $output -ScriptBlock  { mkdir E:\<FolderName> }

#Removing remote sessions
Get-PSSession |Remove-PSSession

Open a SharePoint list using PowerShell

Keep using this so put it up here for reference:


#Open SharePoint List
$SPServer=
"http://abcd01:9999/"
$SPAppList=
"/Lists/UPList/"
$spWeb =
Get-SPWeb $SPServer
$spData = $spWeb.
GetList($SPAppList)

Export SharePoint Group members to .csv

Export SP Group members to .csv 

# Script for extracting members of SP groups in a site to a .csv file

This is how it looks in ISE:



Here is the Powershell:


Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"

function global:Get-SPSite($url)
 {
    return new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)
 }

function global:Get-SPWeb($url)
{
  $site= New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)
        if($site -ne $null)
            {
               $web=$site.OpenWeb();     
            }
    return $web
}

$URL="https://extranet.domain/sites/Meetings"
     $site = Get-SPSite $URL
    
     #Write the Header to "Tab Separated Text File"
        "Site Name`t  URL `t Group Name `t User Account `t User Name `t E-Mail" | out-file "c:\Scripts\UsersandGroupsRpt.txt"
        
     #Iterate through all Webs
      foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs)
      {
        #Write the Header to "Tab Separated Text File"
        "$($web.title) `t $($web.URL) `t  `t  `t `t " | out-file "c:\Scripts\UsersandGroupsRpt.txt" -append
         #Get all Groups and Iterate through  
         foreach ($group in $Web.groups)
         {
                "`t  `t $($Group.Name) `t   `t `t " | out-file "c:\Scripts\UsersandGroupsRpt.txt" -append
                #Iterate through Each User in the group
                       foreach ($user in $group.users)
                        {
                           #Exclude Built-in User Accounts
                    if(($User.LoginName.ToLower() -ne "nt authority\authenticated users") -and ($User.LoginName.ToLower() -ne "sharepoint\system") -and ($User.LoginName.ToLower() -ne "nt authority\local service"))
                    {
                                "`t  `t  `t  $($user.LoginName)  `t  $($user.name) `t  $($user.Email)" | out-file "c:\Scripts\UsersandGroupsRpt.txt" -append
                             }
                        }
         }
       }

    write-host "Report Generated at c:\Scripts\UsersandGroupsRpt.txt"






Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Powershell script: bulk add users to SharePoint group

Note - You may need to check the Claims prefix



Here's the PowerShell:

<# Instructions:

Create a Users.txt in this format (all in one column):

    i:0#.w|domain\aparnis
    i:0#.w|domain\candlandan
    i:0#.w|domain\stivj001
    i:0#.w|domain\attaj001
    i:0#.w|domain\marchorovitz
    etc

Populate the variables

#>

## Adding snap-in
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"

# Variables

$group = "External Readers"
$loc = "C:\scripts"        
$Users = Get-Content "$loc\Users.txt"        
$web = Get-SPWeb -identity $siteCollUrl

# code

foreach ($User in $Users) {
    $web.EnsureUser($User)        
    Set-SPUser -Identity $User -Web $siteCollUrl -Group $group         
}

# Dispose the web object


$Web.Dispose()

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Translating SharePoint Audit log reports:

Translating Site ID and PrincipleID

I produced a Audit report for Security events and though I can see that some security events occurred on the relevant dates I couldn't find a way to translate the Site ID and the Principle ID in the Site ID and Event Data columns. 

It can be done! Enter PowerShell!!!!


Audit Log exported to Excel and downloaded: It just looks horrible



Translate the siteID:

$site = get-spsite -limit all
$site | select ID, url | ft -AutoSize | out-file C:\Scripts\siteID.txt

Then I did a find in the .txt file to match the site ID with the URL

e.g.



Translate the PrincipleID:
  
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("http://SPWebApplication");  
$ServiceContext = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPServiceContext]::GetContext($site);  
$ProfileManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ServiceContext)    
$AllProfiles = $ProfileManager.GetEnumerator() 

$AllProfiles | select displayname,recordID | ft -autosize | out-file c:\scripts\profiles.txt

Then do a Find on the Principle ID and you will get the Display name mapping:




Translating groupid and userid

/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=


E.G

I’ve run a custom security report and the results show 5 permissions edits:


The Event Data column shows the user affected in group\user format











To find:

/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=218

/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=283

/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=8

Etc

This shows you either the user's information or the group's members depending on the entered id 

So: 
/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=218 - shows a user id
/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?id=8 - shows group membership


Note: The ids are unique within site collections only. So ...?id=42 within site collection A might be a different user or group in site collection B.


That's all folks - Thanks for visiting!

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