Category: SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 tweaks

Create claims-based web application from SharePoint PowerShell

Creating claims-based web application is more flexible with SharePoint PowerShell script than CA. Here, the snippet for http and ssl site.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
$ap = New-SPAuthenticationProvider
New-SPWebApplication -Name <Name> -ApplicationPool <ApplicationPool> -ApplicationPoolAccount <ApplicationPoolAccount> -URL <URL> -Port <Port> -AuthenticationProvider $ap
# <Name> is the name of the new web application that uses claims-based authentication.
# <ApplicationPool> is the name of the application pool.
# <ApplicationPoolAccount> is the user account that this application pool will run as.
# <URL> is the public URL for this web application.
# <Port> is the port on which the web application will be created in IIS.

# For Non-SSL
New-SPWebApplication -Name “Web Portal – 80” -ApplicationPool “Web Portal Application Pool – 80” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “sathiya\sp_appPool”) -URL http://webportal.sathiya.com -Port 80 -HostHeader webportal.sathiya.com -DatabaseName WSS_Content_WebPortal_80 -Path “D:\Web_Portal_80” -AuthenticationProvider $ap 

# For SSL 
New-SPWebApplication -Name “Web Portal – 443” -ApplicationPool “Web Portal Application Pool – 443” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “sathiya\sp_appPool”) -URL https://webportal.sathiya.com -Port 443 -HostHeader webportal.sathiya.com -DatabaseName WSS_Content_WebPortal_443 -Path “D:\Web_Portal_443” -SecureSocketsLayer -AuthenticationProvider $ap

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

$ap = New-SPAuthenticationProvider

New-SPWebApplication -Name <Name> -ApplicationPool <ApplicationPool> -ApplicationPoolAccount <ApplicationPoolAccount> -URL <URL> -Port <Port> -AuthenticationProvider $ap

# <Name> is the name of the new web application that uses claims-based authentication.

# <ApplicationPool> is the name of the application pool.

# <ApplicationPoolAccount> is the user account that this application pool will run as.

# <URL> is the public URL for this web application.

# <Port> is the port on which the web application will be created in IIS.

# For Non-SSL

New-SPWebApplication -Name “Web Portal – 80” -ApplicationPool “Web Portal Application Pool – 80” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “sathiya\sp_appPool”) -URL http://webportal.sathiya.com -Port 80 -HostHeader webportal.sathiya.com -DatabaseName WSS_Content_WebPortal_80 -Path “D:\Web_Portal_80” -AuthenticationProvider $ap

# For SSL

New-SPWebApplication -Name “Web Portal – 443” -ApplicationPool “Web Portal Application Pool – 443” -ApplicationPoolAccount (Get-SPManagedAccount “sathiya\sp_appPool”) -URL https://webportal.sathiya.com -Port 443 -HostHeader webportal.sathiya.com -DatabaseName WSS_Content_WebPortal_443 -Path “D:\Web_Portal_443” -SecureSocketsLayer -AuthenticationProvider $ap

Cheers…!

October 23, 2015

Delete SharePoint list items from PowerShell

Here the quick solution to clean up/delete SharePoint list items that save a days lot if cleanup required. Manual efforts would take a lot so prefer to go with scripts;

# Enter the site URL instead http://sathiya.io
$weburl = “http://sathiya.io”
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite ($weburl)
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
Write-Host “The Web application is : “$web.Title
# Enter name of the List below insted of ProjectList
$oList = $web.Lists[“ProjectList”];
$collListItems = $oList.Items;
$count = $collListItems.Count – 1
$itemCount = $contents.Count;
$currentItem = 1;
Write-Output -NoNewline “Are you sure you want to permanently delete the ‘$oList.ItemCount’ item from the list ‘$oList.Title’ (y/n)? ” -NoNewline;
$con = Read-Host;
if ($con -eq “y”) {
    for($intIndex = $count; $intIndex -gt -1; $intIndex–)
    {
        #Deleting the item from list
        “Deleting record: ” + $intIndex
        $collListItems.Delete($intIndex);
    }
    Write-Host $itemCount “item has been deleted from the list ‘”$oList.Title “‘…!” -ForegroundColor Yellow;
}
else {
    Write-Host “No changes are happened in the list'”$oList.Title “‘…!” -ForegroundColor Black -BackgroundColor Green;
}
#Close the connection
$web.Dispose()

# Enter the site URL instead http://sathiya.io

$weburl = “http://sathiya.io”

$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite ($weburl)

$web = $site.OpenWeb()

Write-Host “The Web application is : “$web.Title

# Enter name of the List below insted of ProjectList

$oList = $web.Lists[“ProjectList”];

$collListItems = $oList.Items;

$count = $collListItems.Count – 1

$itemCount = $contents.Count;

$currentItem = 1;

Write-Output -NoNewline “Are you sure you want to permanently delete the ‘$oList.ItemCount’ item from the list ‘$oList.Title’ (y/n)? “ -NoNewline;

$con = Read-Host;

if ($con -eq “y”) {

for($intIndex = $count; $intIndex -gt -1; $intIndex—)

{

#Deleting the item from list

“Deleting record: “ + $intIndex

$collListItems.Delete($intIndex);

}

Write-Host $itemCount “item has been deleted from the list ‘”$oList.Title “‘…!” -ForegroundColor Yellow;

}

else {

Write-Host “No changes are happened in the list'”$oList.Title “‘…!” -ForegroundColor Black -BackgroundColor Green;

}

#Close the connection

$web.Dispose()

Cheers…!

September 24, 2015

Export Windows Service to Excel with Filter

Another sample Powershell script to exporting “Running” and “Stopped” windows service to excel by using Powershell Array.

$location = “C:\sathiya.io”;
$service = @(“Running”, “Stopped”);
for ($i=0;$i -ne 2;$i++)
{
	$text = $service[$i];
	#Exporting the result to the text file
	# Append – This keyword is to update the file in the loop
	# Select – To export the field that you want to export
	Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq “running”} | Select ServiceName, Status | Out-File $location\text1.txt -Append
	#Exporting the result to CSV
	Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq $text} |  Select ServiceName, Status | export-csv $location\file2.csv -Append
}

$location = “C:\sathiya.io”;

$service = @(“Running”, “Stopped”);

for ($i=0;$i -ne 2;$i++)

{

$text = $service[$i];

#Exporting the result to the text file

# Append – This keyword is to update the file in the loop

# Select – To export the field that you want to export

Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq “running”} | Select ServiceName, Status | Out-File $location\text1.txt -Append

#Exporting the result to CSV

Get-Service |?{$_.Status -eq $text} | Select ServiceName, Status | export-csv $location\file2.csv -Append

}

Cheers!

September 21, 2015

Creating Managed Metadata Service Application by Powershell Script

As we are all knows, the SharePoint Powershell can be fast and simple. Here the sample script for creating Managed Metadata Service Application;

New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -Account sathiya\SPAppPool
New-SPMetadataServiceApplication -Name “Managed Metadata Service Application” -ApplicationPool “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -DatabaseName “MMD”
New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Name “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -ServiceApplication “Managed Metadata Service Application”

New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -Account sathiya\SPAppPool

New-SPMetadataServiceApplication -Name “Managed Metadata Service Application” -ApplicationPool “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -DatabaseName “MMD”

New-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Name “Managed Metadata Service App Pool” -ServiceApplication “Managed Metadata Service Application”

Cheers!

September 15, 2015

SharePoint continuous user login prompting with custom host header site

SharePoint site with custom host header will prompting the user login screen on local machine but either you can login or view the site from your local network machines. Because the loop back is enabled by default on each and every machine. To resolve the issue you have to disable it.

Open PowerShell as administrator privilege and run the below script;

New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name “DisableLoopbackCheck” -Value “1” -PropertyType dword

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New–ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa –Name “DisableLoopbackCheck” –Value “1” –PropertyType dword

I hope the things are going good :)Cheers!

July 22, 2015
Application error when access “/_layouts/15/workflow.aspx”

After, I installed and configured the workflow for SharePoint 2013 and register to the web application, it was getting an error while starting the workflow as;
Error:
Message: Application error when access /_layouts/15/workflow.aspx, Error=The pipe endpoint ‘net.pipe://localhost/SecurityTokenServiceApplication/appsts.svc’ could not be found on your local machine.
EventID: 8nca
Solution:
Make sure the Net.Pipe Listener Adapter windows service is running, if not run net start NetPipeActivator. I hope this helps.

April 29, 2015

Script to disable list, libraries from SharePoint crawler

This script will disable all list and libraries from search result in the site collection.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$site = Get-SPSite http://spapplication 
$site | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | ForEach-Object {   
    foreach ($list in $_.lists) 
    {                  
                $list.NoCrawl = $true
                $list.Update()
    }
}
$site.Dispose()

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$site = Get-SPSite http://spapplication

$site | Get-SPWeb -Limit ALL | ForEach-Object {

foreach ($list in $_.lists)

{

$list.NoCrawl = $true

$list.Update()

}

$site.Dispose()

You can disable it from list/library’s advanced settings. If numerous lists then the script will make it easier.

January 8, 2015