Tag: Gist
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Gist extension for VS Code
Gist is a big part of my workflow. I’ve always been on the lookout for a desktop tool. Well, it turns out I was looking in the wrong place. A few days I discovered two VS Code extensions Gist and GitHub Gist Explorer. They both really great extensions and so far I’m really enjoying having…
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Replicate SharePoint Hub site navigation to other Hub sites
I have been working with a large government department where Microsoft Services helped them transform their intranet to SharePoint Online leveraging all the modern capabilities available as well as rethinking what an intranet was. This work included envisioning to fully exploit all of Office 365 and a crucial Information Architecture (IA) design which also mapped…
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PowerShell to manage the modern SharePoint Footer
So I’ll start by saying how bowled over I am by the engagement I’ve had after posting a tweet sharing that I had programmatically updated the new footer. For this, thank you, this kind of engagement and praise is why I love the community and contributing to it. I want to share some numbers with…
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Switch between modern SharePoint homepages using PnP PowerShell
I’ve been working on a modern intranet project amongst over projects for the last 12-months. This has been more about the transformation of content and business processes, rethinking information architecture and reimagining a modern intranet than it has been about custom development. I’ve been working on a modern intranet project amongst over projects for the…
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Working with SharePoint’s Second Stage Recycle Bin in PowerShell
I thought I’d share a PowerShell script that I’ve created to perform a few tasks against a Site Collection Second Stage Recycle Bin (SSRB) in SharePoint. The requirement was to delete items that were older than a set number of days from the Second Stage Recycle Bin (SSRB). A record of each item deleted also needed…
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Security trimmed top navigation links
I was asked to review a client environment yesterday to find out why the links in their top navigation bar were displaying for users that did not have permission to the particular sites. Creating sites It turns out that when sites were being created by the client on SharePoint Foundation 2010 they were being created…
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Hiding an empty rich text column in XSLT
This morning I was trying to create a new style in the itemstyle.xsl stylesheet to use within the content query web part (CQWP). I needed a custom style to display a list of announcements, some of which had content and others didn’t and this style was to improve this output. The problem is that the…
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Working with Managed Paths in SharePoint using PowerShell
Quite a common requirement for implementations of SharePoint that I am involved in is to create new managed paths for a given web application. While it is a simple task to perform via Central Administration, I inevitably turn to PowerShell to achieve this so that I can then include it as part of larger configuration or…
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Adding a Yes, No, Cancel prompt to a PowerShell script
When I write PowerShell scripts, I often want to step through sections. This allows me to decided whether to proceed with parts of my script or not. I achieve this by using the ChoiceDescription class as demonstrated below. More information about using prompts in PowerShell can be found in the following article and tip on Microsoft TechNet.
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Clear the SharePoint Quick Launch using PowerShell
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…
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Backup and download solutions in SharePoint from the configuration database
The need to backup or download SharePoint solutions or WSPs from SharePoint come’s up from time to time. This usually crops up for me when upgrading client environments, and they have forgotten where they put their original solutions, or there is a discrepancy as to which version they installed. To download the solutions from the config…