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Getting Everything You Ever Wanted Out of SharePoint (via PowerShell)

April 10, 2023

Presenter: Corey Burke

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Who does this guy think he is?

• Corey Burke

• Architect, trainer, speaker and founding member of the SharePoint Hosting Services team at Rackspace: The Open Cloud Company

• Contributing author - Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration

• Technical Editor - Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions

• Recovering anti-socialite

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• http://blog.sharepoint-voodoo.net

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About Rackspace

• The largest collective team of SharePoint MVPs.

• The largest collection of published SharePoint authors.

• The most published SharePoint books. (23 and counting)

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The Good Stuff…

What we’ll be covering today– Evolution of SharePoint Administration

– API: Who needs it?

– What do YOU want?

– Where to begin?

– Getting your hands dirty

– Using what you got

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Evolution of SharePoint Administration

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CMDLets.NET APISTSADM

Pre-SharePoint

Era

SharePoint Era

2001/2003 2007 2010/2013


STSADM


.NET


CMDLet


The Who, What, Why’s of the API’s

• What is it?– Application Programming Interface

• Who needs it?– Developers

– SysAdmins

– DevOps

• Why should I care?– Direct .NET access from compatible languages

• Which includes PowerShell

– Ultimate Flexibility

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Ewww! I’m not touching that!

“I’m an Infrastructure person. I never touch the APIs…”

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What Do YOU Want?

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Data Output (File System, Text, CSV, XML, etc…)

Documents

List ID

Farm Build Version


Choosing an Entry Point• SPFarm• Farm ConfigurationFarm• SPServer• Server Properties, Server Roles (Web Front End, App, Database)Servers• SPWebApplication• Web Application Properties, ContentWeb Applications• SPContentDatabase• Content Databases & PropertiesDatabases• SPSite• Site Collection Properties, RootWeb, Collection of WebsSite Collections• SPWeb• Web Properties, Team Sites, Publishing Portals, etc.Webs• Document Libraries, Discussions, Surveys, etc.Lists• Documents, Images, Contacts, Pages, etc.Items

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Getting Your Hands Dirty

•Data Hunting Tools– Get-Help

– Get-Member

•Examples:– Properties vs. Methods

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What do I do with my data?

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Migrating Content Databases


Migrating Content

•Scenario–You are an Administrator tasked with rapidly migrating

50+ content databases:• Development Farm to Test Farm

• 2007 to 2010

• 2010 to 2013

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What the…?

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Gathering Data

•What information do we need to replicate the configuration?– Web Application URL

– Content Database name

– Status (Started or Stopped)

– A means of storing the configuration information (CSV, Text, XML, etc.)

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Getting the data

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CSV Output

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Putting It All Back In

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Broken Content


WSS Profile Pictures Won’t Sync

•Scenario– Content was migrated to a new Farm

– A new URL is has been used in the new Farm

– The Sync job from the Profile Sync Service is only syncing some pictures while others remain broken links pointing to the old URL• You already tried stsadm –o listolddatabases and deleteolddatabases

commands with no change

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Where to begin?

•We need to fix all user profiles in the Site Collection– Where are the WSS profiles in the Site Collection?

• “_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0”

•How do I find the Picture Field for each user?

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Ugh…

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Scrubbing Profile Pictures

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Results

• Don’t forget to run– Stsadm –o sync –deleteolddatabases 0

• Make sure your logged on user has Full Control Permissions to the User Profile Service App

– Then wait an hour, or manually run the “User Profile Service Application - User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization” Timer Job from Central Admin

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Backup Content to File System


Backup Content to File System

•If it is in SharePoint it can be taken out of SharePoint

•Scenario–“I need a backup of just the documents in a Site

Collection so I can start over.”

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Writing Binary Data

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Saving Files to the File System

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Results

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