PowerShellFor SharePoint

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Echo Schmidtechsch@saif.comechoschmidt@gmail.com503-373-8466

Today’s Topics

• Monitoring Crawl• InfoPath to PDF• Updating Folder Permissions

Tools of Trade

Basic Commands

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

Copy-SPSite http://contoso/sites/OldTeam -DestinationDatabase WSS_Content -TargetUrl http://contoso/sites/NewTeam

Get-SPDeletedSite | select Path , siteid

Full Back-upAdd-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\path\path -BackupMethod Full -Verbose

C lean-up & Delete old Back-ups# Delete the old backups keeping 7 days worth

#Adding the SharePoint snapin

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

# Location of spbrtoc.xml

$spbrtoc = "\\path\path\spbrtoc.xml"

# Keep XX days of backups

$days = 7

# Import the Sharepoint backup report xml file

[xml]$sp = gc $spbrtoc

# Find the old backups in spbrtoc.xml

$old = $sp.SPBackupRestoreHistory.SPHistoryObject |

? { $_.SPStartTime -lt ((get-date).adddays(-$days)) }

if ($old -eq $Null) { write-host "No reports of backups older than $days days found in spbrtoc.xml.`nspbrtoc.xml isn't changed and no files are removed.`n" ; break}

# Delete the old backups from the Sharepoint backup report xml file

$old | % { $sp.SPBackupRestoreHistory.RemoveChild($_) }

# Delete the physical folders in which the old backups were located

$old | % { Remove-Item $_.SPBackupDirectory -Recurse }

# Save the new Sharepoint backup report xml file

$sp.Save($spbrtoc)

Write-host "Backup(s) entries older than $days days are removed from spbrtoc.xml and harddisc."

Monitoring Search

InfoPath to PDF

Invalid Signatures

• Push out the registry entry cited in KB98026. We only needed ‘AllowUntrustedCertExpirationCheck’ to solve the problem.• [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\

infopath\Security]• "AllowUntrustedCertExpirationCheck"=dword:00000001

• Apply the three .MSP files contained in the KB98026 self-extracting .EXE

• Apply the one .MSP file contained in KB981041, which is a required follow-on hotfix per the above article.

PowerShell v.s. 3rd Party Solutions

Image Credit to Wevilly Cheats at https://binweevilcompany.wordpress.com

Thing to Consider…• Metadata• Image Capture• Signatures• Move to Record Center• Automation via Workflow

Permissions and SharePoint

HREmployeeEmployee’s ManagerEmployee’s Manager’s ManagerEmployee’s Manager's Manager’s ManagerEtc…

Workflow to update permissions

Learning Powershell

• http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/• http://www.pluralsight.com/

Blogs• http://www.happysysadm.com/2013/06/how-to-throttle-workflow-activites-

in.html• http://wannemacher.us/?p=412• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2011/04/04/scaling-and-queuing-

powershell-background-jobs.aspx

Echo Schmidtechsch@saif.comechoschmidt@gmail.com503-373-8466