I am trying to create a site script from an existing team site but when I run the script that I followed from this Microsoft document it asks me for the WebURL WebURL Prompt, even though it is in the script, then when I provide it at the prompt it gives me the error Error.
I am not new to site scripts but have not used them much. I would like to create one from an existing site that I have created for the PM team. Please advise. I am using the latest SharePoint Online Management Shell and I am logged in. I am also a Global Admin.
Any assistance would be helpful as I have done everything I can think of to do and Googled my heart out but cannot figure out what is going on.
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From the screenshot you posted, it looks like you did not include ` (back tick) at the end of each row in your command. Those are necessary in order for PowerShell to understand entirety of your command which spans across multiple rows, like in the following example:
Get-SPOSiteScriptFromWeb `
-WebUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/template `
-IncludeBranding `
-IncludeTheme `
-IncludeRegionalSettings `
-IncludeSiteExternalSharingCapability `
-IncludeLinksToExportedItems `
-IncludedLists ("Shared Documents", "Lists/Project Activities")
Alternative would be to enter entire command and all parameters in single row, like this:
Get-SPOSiteScriptFromWeb -WebUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/template -IncludeBranding -IncludeTheme -IncludeRegionalSettings -IncludeSiteExternalSharingCapability -IncludeLinksToExportedItems -IncludedLists ("Shared Documents", "Lists/Project Activities")
Hope this helps :)
Dragan
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I am trying to customize the output of my pipeline release through setting some env variables into a task.
I found the following link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/scripts/logging-commands?view=azure-devops&tabs=powershell
which however does not seem to work.
What I am doing is simply to create a pipeline with a single task (either bash or PS), and there declaring the commands specified in the link through the inline version of the task.
Has anyone already successfully managed to make these commands work?
Do I do something wrong and/or incomplete?
Does anyone have a better way to customise the pipeline with relevant information from a task? E.g. through the release name, or the description and/or tag of the specific release?
Edit:
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=sauce;]crushed tomatoes"
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=secretSauce;issecret=true]crushed tomatoes with garlic"
Write-Host "Non-secrets automatically mapped in, sauce is $env:SAUCE"
Write-Host "Secrets are not automatically mapped in, secretSauce is $env:SECRETSAUCE"
Write-Host "You can use macro replacement to get secrets, and they'll be masked in the log: $(secretSauce)"
this is the code, copy and pasted. Now I tried also with the script, and it does not work either.
I use an hosted windows agent.
When you set a new variable with the logging command the variable is available only in the next tasks and not in the same task.
So, split your script to 2 tasks, in the second task put the last 3 lines and you will see that the first task works:
this also puzzled me for a while, in the end i found out that if you want to modify the $env:path you can call the special task called task.prependpath by using the special logging command syntax like "##vso[task.prependpath]local directory path". you can find more of this kind of special commands from their source :
https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/blob/master/docs/authoring/commands.md
I've changed paths (polling uri's) to XML with data but Windows still requests the old one xml url.
I was updating xml url in the following steps:
Turn live tiles off
Unpin tile
MS Edge browser cache and history clearing
Delete all content within C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_randomized_hash/LocalState/PinnedTiles
Delete file iconcache.db inside C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local
Disk Cleanup
So I start MS Edge again and pin tiles to start menu. Then I see that Windows still requests the old xml path via server logs.
How to update it? There must be some system cache I suppose ...
I've spent a lot of time and would appreciate any advice!
Microsoft Support replied to my question. So the reason was MS Edge cache.
These steps helped me, I hope it'll help someone else.
Please try the below steps to reset the edge browser and check. Please
know that resetting the Microsoft edge will remove your bookmarks and
History. Follow the instruction provided below and check.
a. Navigate to the location:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe
b. Delete everything in this folder.
c. Type Windows Powershell in search box.
d. Right click on Windows Powershell and select Run as administrator.
e. Copy and paste the following command.
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach
{Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" –Verbose}
The above worked for me. However, I have since discovered that after unpinning the tile/s you don't want, you can simply just delete the unrequired tile folder/s here: C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\PinnedTiles
Not to hijack the topic, but if you'd like to see all your bookmarks/favorites, here's a starter powershell script to give you that information.
You'll need the Newtonsoft.Json.dll
cls;
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Users\<YOUR USER FOLDER>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Newtonsoft.Json.dll") |Out-Null;
$source = "C:\Users\<YOUR USER FOLDER>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\RoamingState";
$filter = "{*}.json";
$files = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $source -filter $filter -File;
foreach ($f in $files)
{
$json = Get-Content -Path $f.FullName
$result = [Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert]::DeserializeObject($json);
$result.Title.ToString()
$result.URL.ToString()
}
I am currently working on a pre-existing kettle job that calls a powershell script that sends Azure HdInsight a pig job. Get-AzureHdInsightJobOutput is part of this script and is now deprecated. So I am replacing it with Get-AzureRmHdInsightJobOutput. However the new cmdlet has two parameter sets, one for display and one for download. I need an object to be returned in order to avoid making changes to the kettle job.
I'm hoping to find out if the display parameters will return an object or if they just print out the results.
Yes, Get-AzureRmHdInsightJobOutput cmdlet will return string object when in use with the Display parameter set, regardless of the DisplayOutputType.
You can refer to the source code of this cmdlet below in the Azure PowerShell github link:
GetAzureHDInsightJobOutputCommand.cs
Hope this helps!
I've been writing a script to connect to SharePoint online, create a document library and add some AD accounts to the permission. I've written all the code using snippets I have found through many searches but am having an issue with the permissions part.
I keep getting an error when adding the user and permission type to roledefinitionbinding.
The error is:
Collection has not been initialized at line 0 char 0.
Here is my code
$collRdb = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RoleDefinitionBindingCollection($ctx)
$collRdb.Add($role)
$collRoleAssign = $web.RoleAssignments;
$ctx.Load($principal)
$collRoleAssign.Add($principal, $collRdb)
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
The issue is when it runs $collRoleAssign.Add($principal, $collRdb) part and stop with the error above.
I would really appreciate a hand with this before my PC get launched out of the window.
Thanks
Mark
EDIT
All of the code is taken from this page:
http://jeffreypaarhuis.com/2012/06/07/scripting-sharepoint-online-with-powershell-using-client-object-model/
The only change is i'm using the get principal fun instead of the get group, but not sure if that's what has done it. I'm very new to powershell.
Thanks
I don't think you can add something into $collRoleAssign if it's not loaded before.
You get an error because it has null value.
I would have wrote it like this:
$collRoleAssign = $web.RoleAssignments
$ctx.Load($collRoleAssign)
Comment: I suppose you already set $principal before
$ctx.Load($principal)
Comment: here I suppose $collRdb is set and loaded
$collRoleAssign.Add($principal, $collRdb)
$ctx.ExecuteQuery()
By the way there is a ";" in your code which should not be there
I didn't try it but that should help!
Sylvain
I have created a powershell module (.psm1) file that includes a few other powershell scripts. We use it for sharepoint.
So basically, here's what happens:
I have a deploy script that retrieves the module location from the registry
It loads the module using the Import-Module cmdlet (using -force switch)
This module in turn loads the Sharepoint 2010 snap in and a few other scripts that I created
It runs runs a deployment script that references functions from the included scripts
It also runs a command line application and sends the output directly to the screen
The script will usually work the first time. However, after a few number of tries the commandline tool will stop working and sending output to the screen altogether. And if I try to run a commandline tool (not a cmd-let) after running my script, it don't worky anymore: no output, nothing is done. Its just the same as hitting enter on a blank prompt. anything powershell specific or running GUI applications will work fine but running any console application will not produce any concievable results. the only solution to this, is to just close my powershell and open it again. it will work for usually once and I will have to close it again. our users certainly wont be happy about that..
The most 'notable' things on the script:
scriptblocks are used extensively (for logging), a script block is sent to a handler that executes it using invokecommand and logs the step
its manipulating sharepoint objects
all objects are properly disposed of
no static variables are created nor changed
There are a few global variables shared across all scripts
What I have tried:
I striped my code to a bare minimum: loading an xml file, and restaring a few windows services but I'm still getting this intermittently. I have no idea which part of the code could cause this. I would love to post the code, but our company policy forbids me to. so my aplogies..
Update as per the comment below:
here's roughly how I use codeblocks. I have this function below that is used everytime I want to make the user aware of a task that I'm executing and what it outcome is.
function DoTask($someString, $scriptBlock, $param)
{
try
{
OutputTaskDescription $someString
InvokeCommand $scriptBlock -ArgumentList $param
OutputResultOK
}
catch
{
OutputResultError $_.tostring()
}
}
it could then be used like this:
$stringVar = "something"
$SpSite = new-spsite
deploySomething 'Deploying something' -param $spsite -ScriptBlock {
dosomethingToObject $stringvar
dosomethingToObject $spSite.Name
}
it would then output something like:
Deploying Something ------------- OK
Deploying Something ------------- ERROR
Also notice that I pass the $spsite in the argument list and I just use the string directly. I still don't understand how this works but it seems like I can access all primitive typed variables even without passing them as arguments but I have to pass more complex objects are params, else they dont have any value.
Update:
after much searching and days of pain. I have found others with the same pain. My code exhibits the same exact symptoms as described here:
http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/496326/stability-problem-any-application-run-fails-with-lastexitcode-1073741502
I guess there is no solution yet to this problem.
After a little while I've noticed that if I've ran some very memory intensive functions, I too have gotten that behavior where everything you try to execute just goes to the prompt again. I'd recommend setting Set-PsDebug -Trace 2 to see what those functions are actually doing. I fixed my issue by doing this and figuring out how to make my functions more efficient.