Get all Groups and Users in a Site Collection or Web
Recently a user contacted me asking how to get all the groups and users in a site and subsites. Both example will output to the C:\ drive of the server. This script will output all the groups and user...
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Server was unable to process request Access is denied. Connecting to SharePoint
Errors: Server was unable to process request. —> Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Object moved Object moved to In your project, navigate to the Web Reference...
View ArticleMake Your PowerShell Script Environment Aware
In place of hard coding URLs for each environment, I decided to make a single script that is environment aware. Why? Cuts down on the number of scripts that have to be supported for a single...
View ArticleUploading Files to SharePoint 2016 Using ListData.svc
Ran into a small issue when testing some code for a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 migration. With SharePoint 2010, the following code sample would work to upload files to a library. //ServRef is a...
View ArticleOfficialfile.asmx SharePoint 2013 and 2016
As part of a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 migration I needed to test the Officialfile.asmx service. When testing the service I encountered this error: NotFound string sFilePath = @"c\taco.txt";...
View ArticleSharePoint listdata.svc Returns Error – FIXED
With SharePoint 2016 and 2013: If you try to access listdata.svc you receive an error This page can’t be displayed or Sorry, something went wrong. SharePoint Designer you try to open Lists and...
View ArticleEmail address is incorrect for user in SharePoint
In the process of migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2016 and ran into a small problem. When trying to get the email property from the SPUser class, it returned a value of domain\userName. Clearly, this...
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Remove Upload Button and Drag files here to upload text
There might be a better way to get this done, but for now, this works for me. Keep in mind, this update works on a per view basis. If I find a way to correctly update the masterpage, I will update this...
View ArticleSearching SharePoint Using PowerShell
In this example, I needed to search a farm for every site under a managed path. BUT, the sites I’m searching for were built using a 3rd part tool and would not correctly appear in the search results....
View ArticleCreate a console app to query userprofileservice.asmx
In Visual Studio, create a console application. Create a web reference using the following inputs: URL: https://yourSite.url/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx?WSDL Name: UPS1 In the program.cs class,...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to Execute SharePoint Search Queries
In this example, I’m narrowing my search to one library and a search term. At a high level, the script is searching the FoodSite for the word GoodTaco. cls function Query-SPSearch { param(...
View ArticleSharePoint CSOM Upload File Access Denied Error
Simple process, using a .Net Web App, create a local file and upload it to SharePoint. I thought the service account I was using had ampel permissions to the Site, but for it didnt… For testing, I...
View ArticleThe Web application at X could not be found.
Error: The Web application at https://sharepoint.sharepointed.com could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system...
View ArticleSharePoint SPFx PNP gulp trust-dev-cert Error
Trying to setup my dev environment to play around with SPFx and ran into this error: [08:33:19] Error - [trust-cert] Error: root "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" Signature matches Public Key...
View ArticleMove OneNote Notebooks to New SharePoint Library or Server
Problem: My company recently completed a SharePoint 2010 to 2016 migration. With the migration came the use HTTPS security, so my OneNote notebooks stored in SharePoint would no longer sync. All of my...
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Copy or Move Folder Structure in SharePoint Using CSOM
This post is intended for SharePoint Online and 2016+ using CSOM. In previous version of SharePoint, moving a folder structure to a different library or a different library in another site collection...
View ArticlePowerShell and CSOM Bulk Delete List Items
From my desktop, I wanted to delete all the items in a list. The list had 10,000+ item and loop through the items one at a time is slow and not efficient. This is where batch process comes in and will...
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Use Selenium to Upload a File to SharePoint
I created a Visual Studio console app. Added the Selenium WebDriver and the Selenium Chome WebDriver Nuget packages using OpenQA.Selenium; using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome; using...
View ArticleUsing SharePoint Keyword Query to Search Across Site Collections
Quick and easy way to search for an item across site collections. I would suggest using one of the Keyword query tools to fine tune your queries. Also note that SharePoint will limit your search...
View ArticleGet 5 Most Recently Update Items From ALL Lists in a FARM
A wise man recently asked me how I’d go about retrieving the five most recent modified items from every list in a farm. Fun question and there are a couple ways of going about this, but here is what I...
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