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Background During a intranet migration there was a requirement to move the intranet from the root site to a site collection under "/sites". When moving site collections around in the SharePoint Admin Center a redirect will automatically be added to the old URL, so in many cases this is sufficient. In this case we could … Continue reading Redirect your sites in SharePoint to a new site collection
If you have been an early adopter of the Hub Site functionality (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/planning-hub-sites) in SharePoint Online, you might also get stuck in some trouble with Hub Sites not showing up in SharePoint Admin Center or being unable to register or unregister these sites. Fortunately it is quite easy to clean up broken hub sites and … Continue reading Fix broken Hub Sites in SharePoint Online
SharePoint Framework Extention to enable the page to use the full page canvas. The header at the top of the page with title, navigation and site icon is hidden when this app is enabled at the site.
Lately Microsoft released the new and long awaited modern site template for publishing sites in SharePoint Online (Office 365). The site templates is named "Communication Site" and is the second template released after the modern "Team Site". This site template can be created if you have permissions from the SharePoint Home page using the "Create … Continue reading Create a Communication Site from code in SharePoint Online using PowerShell
You are not any longer able to log into SharePoint using PowerShell, SharePoint Designer and other 3. party tools (ex. ShareGate, SharePoint Search Query Tool etc). The error message states something that you are "Unauthorized" and "…the web site does not support SharePoint Online credentials" even though you username and password is fine. Example: Error … Continue reading Problem with connecting to SharePoint Online in Office 365 with PowerShell, SharePoint Designer and other 3. party tools
This examples shows how to create new lists from custom list templates in SharePoint using PowerShell and CSOM. Custom list templates are STP-files uploaded to the List Template Gallery on the site. This should work both on-premises (2013/2016) and Online (Office 365). https://gist.github.com/aflyen/da04a090cae03ae4db58589fe2246716 Note: This example uses commands from the Office Dev PnP PowerShell library, ex. "Connect-PnPContext". I … Continue reading Create list from custom template in SharePoint with PowerShell
In document libraries it is possible to enable ratings, both likes and average score (1-5). In this article I will cover how to enable "Likes" on the Pages library in a publishing site. When configuring libraries manually, this is enabled from the "Rating settings" in the library: But when we follow the remote provisioning pattern to create new … Continue reading Enable ratings in SharePoint with PowerShell and CSOM
In provisioning solutions it can be a good practice to add a security group from Active Directory as an additional site collection owner. Unfortunately a security group is not accepted as either primary or secondary owner. So to set a group as site collection administrator, the easiest approach I could find was to set the "IsSiteAdmin" … Continue reading Add AD security group as Site Collection administrator with PowerShell in SharePoint
Scheduling is easily enabled through the web interface when configuring the "Pages" library, but when deploying solutions using PowerShell, this must be automated as part of the configuration. Unfortunately, as many other sources also state, this is not directly supported in the Client Side API (CSOM). The solution is to manually set up the Pages … Continue reading Enabling scheduling on Publishing Pages in SharePoint Online (Office 365) using CSOM and PowerShell
By default the XsltListViewWebPart does not support export from the web user interface. I often build solutions by configuring the web parts in the browers, exporting and adjusting the defintions and then deploying them with PowerShell. With a few lines of PowerShell this capability can also be enabled for the Xslt List View Web Part. Before enabling the … Continue reading Exporting XsltListViewWebPart in SharePoint 2013
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