Clear the SharePoint Quick Launch using PowerShell

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Today I had a requirement to remove all the headings and links from the quick launch navigation of hundreds of SharePoint sites. The sites were being provisioned as part of a PowerShell deployment script that was deleting the default list and libraries. Going through each of these sites manually was not an option – so I edited the deployment script to include a function to remove the headings for me.

SharePoint Quick Launch with Headings
SharePoint Quick Launch with Headings

I remembered doing something similar to this back on SharePoint 2007 but I didn’t have access to the previous script or project and instead had to research the subject for a while to find what I needed.

Solution

A post from Get-SPScripts supplied me with what I was after, although it was part of a much larger script. So I picked away at their code and made it into the following PowerShell function to re-use in other projects.

The above Remove-SPQuickLaunchLinks function will remove all headings and links from the SharePoint quick launch for a particular site.

Empty SharePoint Quick Launch
Empty SharePoint Quick Launch

Remember to review, rename and test this script before using it in a production environment.

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James Callaghan

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