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This post will describe how you can remove users in bulk from the User Information List using a PowerShell script and a simple CSV file. In SharePoint 2010, the people picker retrieves data from multiple sources. – The Site Collection’s User Information List (UIL); – Active Directory. When you delete a user from Active Directory, Read more about Remove users from User Information List (people picker) using PowerShell[…]
This script will show you the site collection creation time for each site collection using PowerShell. Try the following oneliner to get all the information you need:
In a minute, I will show you how to change the site collection administrators for all site collections using PowerShell. Thanks to Maarten Peeters for helping! But first, it may be easy to get a result for all the current site collection administators, in case you want to roll back: Now if you want to Read more about Change site collection administrators using PowerShell[…]
This post describes how you can update the Secure Store Service Application using PowerShell. You can use the following script to update information for one of your Secure Store Applications. I want to change the Contact E-mail property for this Secure Store Application to “NewEmail@xxx.com” Used Configuration For this part, I have set up the Read more about Update Secure Store Service Application using PowerShell[…]
This post describes the most frequently asked questions on a content database in SharePoint. Since there is a lot of misconception on how different SharePoint components relate to each other, I will try to answer some common questions. Please feel free to comment or ask additional questions in the comment section. I will add them Read more about Content Database FAQ[…]
This post discusses an error using the Move-SPSite cmdlet. Let’s say you have 1 Web Application with 2 content databases: – Database 1 – Database 2 Database 1 contains a site collection with the following URL: http://portal.contoso.com. For some reason, you moved the site collection using the following cmdlet: So far so good. Now let’s Read more about Error using Move-SPSite cmdlet[…]
Summary: This post describes how to reset the filter on a view using PowerShell. If you want to reset the filter for multiple views, you can use PowerShell to accomplish this. Below is the script to do this for a single view: Make sure you change the variables to fit your environment.
Another one in the series of oneliners. This one will show you all Web Applications, and all associated Content Databases for these Web Applications: The output will look similar to this:You can output this to a text file by running the following:
This oneliner will show you the currently configured cache accounts for each of your Web Applications. Just paste this line of code in your SharePoint Management Shell: This is the output for the above command in my test environment: In my case, I have not properly configured the super user accounts for all my Web Read more about Current cache accounts PowerShell oneliner[…]
During the last few months I have been asked a few times to help think of a way to edit list values for lists that contain a lot of data. I immediately thought of PowerShell. This is why I want to show you what you can do with PowerShell. Used set up for this demo Read more about Add/Edit list items using PowerShell in SharePoint 2010[…]