Have you been looking for ways to utilize PowerShell in your SharePoint environment, but don't have any practical scenarios? In this session learn which Cmdlets give you the best "bang for your buck" when working with administrative, provisioning and auditing duties. Get introduced to the gray space between administration and development when learning the differences between using PowerShell with an on-premise deployment or Office 365. Also, learn common tasks that should be turned into valuable scripts.

1. PowerShell: Through the SharePoint
Looking Glass
Brian Caauwe @bcaauwe
April 14th, 2018

2. Who am I
• Manager, Consultant, Speaker and new dad of 2
• Email: bcaauwe@avtex.com
• Twitter: @bcaauwe
• Technical Editor
• Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration
• Certifications
• MCM: SharePoint Server 2010
• MCSM: SharePoint
Brian Caauwe

3. Thank you #SPSTC
sponsors!

4. Poll
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5. Agenda

7. Investigation

8. Automation

9. Learning

10. Get-Help

11. • ALWAYS run “As Administrator”
• Uses powershell.exe under Windowssystem32
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell snap-in
– C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server
Extensions15[6]CONFIGPOWERSHELLRegistrationsharepoint.ps1
• Sets ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned
• 700+ Cmdlets – SharePoint 2013
• 800+ Cmdlets – SharePoint 2016
Management Shell
On-Premise

12. • Microsoft.SharePoint namespace
• Server Architecture
• SPFarm
• SPWebApplication
• SPContentDatabase
• Site Architecture
• SPSite
• SPWeb
• SPList
• SPListItem
• MSDN Resource
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193058.aspx
Server Side
Object Model

13. • Uses powershell.exe same as on-prem
• Imports the module
• Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell
• Sets ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned
• Only 131 Cmdlets
• Also includes Cmdlets for Azure AD Module
• Supplement
• Client Side Object Model (CSOM)
• Patterns and Practices (PnP)
Management Shell
Online

14. • Microsoft.SharePoint.Client namespace
• Starting Point
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Web
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Site
• MSDN Resource
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.client.aspx
Client Side
Object Model

15. • Call PowerShell from Windowssystem32
• Register Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell snap-in
-psconsolefile “C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft
SharedWeb Server Extensions15[6]CONFIGPOWERSHELL
Registrationpsconsole.psc1”
• Call Script
-command “E:PowerShellSet-ScriptName.ps1”
• Logging
Scheduled Tasks

16. Memory Leaks
• Disposable Objects
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()
• SPAssignment – Garbage Collector
Global
Start-SPAssignment -Global
Get-SPSite –Limit All | Get-SPWeb | Select Url, WebTemplate, WebTemplateId
Stop-SPAssignment -Global
Scoped
$w = Get-SPWebApplication http://www.company.com
$siteScope = Start-SPAssignment
foreach ($site in ($siteScope | Get-SPSite -Limit All –WebApplication $))
{
$webScope = Start-SPAssignment
foreach ($web in ($webScope | Get-SPWeb -Limit All -Site $site))
{
## Do Something
}
Stop-SPAssignment $webScope
}
Stop-SPAssignment $siteScope

17. • Other Assemblies
• IIS (WebAdministration)
• SQL
• Exchange
• User Profile
• Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles
• Managed Metadata
• Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy

18. On-prem

19. • High Level Cmdlets
• Get-SPWebApplication
• Get-SPSite
• Get-SPWeb Day-to-Day
$w = Get-SPWebApplication http://my.company.com
$site = Get-SPSite http://my.company.com
$site | Get-SPWeb -Limit All

20. • Will utilize Log Cmdlets
• New-SPLogFile
• Merge-SPLogFile
Troubleshooting
New-SPLogFile
Merge-SPLogFile –Path “C:Debugerror.log” –Correlation
470a4ec2-985d-43be-a14e-176eb1c39672

21. • Will utilize SPSolution Cmdlets
• Add-SPSolution
• Get-SPSolution
• Install-SPSolution
Customizations
Add-SPSolution –LiteralPath “C:Solutionsspcmis.wsp”
$sol = Get-SPSolution | ?{$_.Name –eq “spcmis.wsp”}
$sol | Install-SPSolution –GACDeployment –AllWebApplications –Compatibilitylevel All

22. • End users request a site into a list
• Automate site creation
• Inform user of progress
• Enforce Governance
Site Request

23. Site Request
Lay of the land…
• List Location: http://portal.lab.com
• List Title: Site Requests
• Columns:
• Title* (Single line of text)
• Abbreviation* (Single line of text)
• Site Description (Multiple lines of text)
• Site Type* (Choice)
• Size* (Choice)
• Site Owner* (Person)
• Secondary Owner* (Person)
• Site Contributors (Person-Multi)
• Site Visitors (Person-Multi)
• Status (Choice) [Hidden]
• Default Value [Submitted]
• Status Description (Multiple lines of text) [Hidden]
* Required Fields

24. Site Request Process
Demo

25. Online

26. • Utilize Cmdlet
• Connect-SPOService
Connecting
Connect-SPOService –url https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com

27. • Limited Cmdlets
• Get/Set-SPOSite
• Get/Set/Remove-SPOUser
Day-to-Day
$site = Get-SPSite https://[tenant].sharepoint.com
Set-SPOUser -LoginName user@email.com -Site $site -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true

28. Core
Objects
CSOM

29. • Everything starts with the Client Context
Client Side
Object Model
$username = “user@email.com”
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String “pass@word1” -AsPlainText
-Force
$ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($url)
$ctx.Credentials = New-Object
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($username,
$password)

30. • Using Load and ExecuteQuery to use objects
Client Side
Object Model
$web = $ctx.Web
$site = $ctx.Site
$ctx.Load($web)
$ctx.Load($site)
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()

31. $creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential
“user@email.com”, (ConvertTo-SecureString “pass@word1” -AsPlainText
-force)
Connect-PnPOnline –Url $url –Credentials $creds
$ctx = Get-PnPContext
$ctx.RequestTimeout = [System.Threading.Timeout]::Infinite
$root = Get-PnPWeb
Starts with the Connect-PnPOnline
Revolves around PnPContext
PnP
PowerShell

32. $provisioningList = Get-PnPList -Identity $listName
$query = "<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Status'></FieldRef><Value
Type='Text'>Submitted</Value></Eq></Where></Query></View>"
$items = Get-PnPListItem -List $provisioningList -Query $query
Set-PnPListItem -List "Provisioning List" -Identity $item.Id -Values
@{"Status"="In Progress";"StatusDescription"="Starting site creation process"}
New-PnPGroup -Title $ownerGroupName -Owner $siteOwner.Email
Get-PnPGroup -AssociatedOwnerGroup -Web $web
Set-PnPGroup -Identity $ownersGroup -SetAssociatedGroup Owners
Set-PnPGroupPermissions -Identity $ownersGroup -AddRole "Full Control“
Add-PnPUserToGroup -LoginName $siteOwner.Email -Identity $ownersGroup
Wraps CSOM methods and objects
New-PnPTenantSite -Title $item.Title -Url $siteLocation -Owner
$siteOwner.Email -TimeZone 11 -Description $siteDescription -Template
$siteTemplate –Wait
New-PnPWeb -Title $item.Title -Url $webLocation -Template $siteTemplate -Web
$parentWeb -Locale 1033 -BreakInheritance
PnP
PowerShell

33. PnP PowerShell
Demo

34. Questions
Please give me feedback
https://guidebook.com/guide/123531/event/18208880

35. Resources
• Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2013
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662539.aspx
• Office Dev Patterns and Practices GitHub
• https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP
• PnP PowerShell
• https://github.com/sharepoint/pnp-powershell/
• SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35585
• SharePoint Online Management Shell
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588
• Display a list of OneDrive for Business Site Collections
• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn911464.aspx
• Using Lambda Expressions with CSOM in PowerShell
• http://www.itunity.com/article/loading-specific-values-lambda-expressions-sharepoint-csom-
api-windows-powershell-1249

36. Contact Info
• Email: bcaauwe@avtex.com
• Twitter: @bcaauwe
• SlideShare:
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• MNSPUG: http://www.sharepointmn.com
Brian Caauwe