I have created a script in 2015 to download all documents from a site collection to a file share or local drive (blogpost) but we now received the request to download and synchronize documents from SharePoint Online. The customer wants to download all documents from...
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PowerShellConfigure SharePoint managed metadata columns using PowerShell CSOM
I received the request from a colleague to create a script that will configure all managed metadata columns in SharePoint Online to allow people to fill in values. My colleague first tried this using PnP but was unable to configure the necessary property of a managed...
Grant user account Farm Administrator permissions with PowerShell
We had an "unexpected" issue at a customer which I troubleshooted. I was unable to connect to the Central Administration and I tried to add my account to the Farm Administrators group using PowerShell as a possible solution. The issue occurred on a SharePoint 2013...
Generate a new secure password with PowerShell
The PowerShell Gallery is a perfect solution to store your own scripts which you use on a regular basis where other people can use them to. In this case I added my script to generate a new secure password with PowerShell where you only need to specify the length...
Create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell
There are a few of these scripts around to create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell but I decided to create a new one as SharePoint 2019 is coming with a bit more functionality and error handling. A good blog about the different service accounts needed can...
SharePoint Online site provisioning using Microsoft Flow, Azure Functions and Azure Storage Queue
A while back I created a provider hosted app using CSOM in C# for creating project sites but this required the users to have sufficient permissions to create a site. Using Microsoft Flow, Azure Function, Azure Storage Queue, PowerShell and SharePoint Online I created...