A little more context, I'm trying to use PowerShell to search through SharePoint for any files which have a particular Author.
We have an issue where if someone tries to delete a file that is authored by an ex-employee it alerts a different person that they did not have permission for the file to go to recycle bin for some reason and makes them permanently delete it instead. Below is a link of what they get:
Microsoft won't support it as they say they won't supply custom scripts so I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas?
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I'd like to find an automatic way to share OneDrive files with a specific internal user, what's the best approach? My current scripts are using PowerShell, but that's not a hard requirement.
I've tried:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/driveitem-invite?view=graph-rest-1.0 - what's the best library to use for this? I've created an AzureAD app with the appropriate delegated permissions. In PowerShell, once I run Connect-MgGraph, what method can I run to call this?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/set-pnplistitempermission?view=sharepoint-ps - but my OneDrive items aren't part of a list. Could they be? The folder permission works well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/set-pnpfolderpermission but I don't understand why there isn't a file one just like this folder one
I know the absolute URL of the file, the UPN of the internal user I want to directly share with, and I have owner permissions to the file. How can I do this?
I often have to move a large number of files from one part of sharepoint to another, and the GUI often has issues with data loss or duplication, as well as being extremely repetitive and time intensive.
Ideally I'd really like there to be a way to just navigate sharepoint files as if they were just any other files on a command line in a computer file system. Is such a thing even possible? If not, is there at least a way to cp files from one directory into another?
Things like these make it seem easy, except the file paths don't actually match up in reality to any expected path:
https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2018/03/sharepoint-online-move-files-using-powershell.html
When attempting to use the SPO or PNP module in powershell, the documentation is pretty unclear. Get-PNPfile either always returns file not found if I try to use /Documents/Foldername like one would think. Even if I right click and copy link and get that messy url and make sure to deal with the ampersands, it still doesn't work. For example
Get-PnPFile -Url "https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/team/Documents/file"
I would expect this to well, return an object that contains something pointing to the file, but it never works.
One possibility is that MFA is a requirement in the environment I'm using and it seems requires a flag -UseWebLogin which appears to work without errors, but it also appears to work when I mistyped the url of the team name when I used the command Connect PnPOnline, so maybe there is an issue there?
First for MFA, it will be better to user Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://domain.sharepoint.com" -Interactive just like the comment on your original post.
And for the file not found error, it seems you are not using the correct URL. Have a try on the site relative URL.
Here is what I have tested
So, the solution ended up being the use of the "sync" feature which then creates an alias that can be manipulated as if it was a regular file on a machine using powershell. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to interact with the sharepoint filesystem via command line which is bonkers.
I'm hoping someone can help. I've started using the Community TFS Build Extensions, in particular the FTP activity. I followed the documentation here and got to grips with the it pretty easily. I'm encountering one major problem though.
My Web app has a basic enough structure:
I start by creating the FindMatchingFile activity which places the files in the drop location into an IEnumberable variable called FilesToFTP :
String.Format("{0}\**\*.*", BuildDetail.DropLocation)
When I iterate through the variable and print out the results, all seems correct:
G:\builds\Build.1203\CredentialManagement\bin\BusLogic.dll
G:\builds\Build.1203\CredentialManagement\css\style.css
G:\builds\Build.1203\CredentialManagement\AppError.aspx
......
G:\builds\Build.1203\CredentialManagement\Web.config
etc etc.
The problem is, when I pass that IEnumerable to the Ftp activity (converting it to a string array), it FTP uploads all the files on the server however it doesn't keep the directory structure of my Web app. It just piles all the output (dlls, aspx etc) into one directory. See the following two screenshots.
Is there any way I can use the FTP activity to upload all the output from the drop location recursively? I feel like I'm doing something simple wrong.
The FTP activity in TFS Build Extensions doesn't upload files recursively.
I think it would be a good value addition to the activity. Please create a request for the project and we will add in it. For now, you can go around it by calling the Ftp activity recursively for each directory and setting the RemoteDirectory for each.
I have been working with SharePoint Designer, and have been creating workflows, but cannot seem to find a way to create a folder inside of another folder that already exists. Now, I have no problem creating a folder and then creating another one inside of it, but I need to be able to add the subfolder to a pre-existing folder. Can anyone help. I am using SharePoint Designer 2010. I keep getting the error that it could not create the list item and to make sure the list exists and the user has permissions to the list. I am the owner with all permissions and the list does exist. I can give you more details if you have specific questions. I have tried referencing the data several different ways, starting with the way in which I referenced it to create a folder and subfolder, but am having no luck. Please help.
Have you tried including the existing folder name? See this blog post for details: http://www.getinthesky.com/2012/08/creating-folders-and-sub-folders-using-sharepoint-2010-designer-workflow/
It involves creating the folder and subfolder in the same workflow, however, the parent folder must be created first anyway.
I have to solve the following task for our university homepage:
Whenever a pdf is requested the user has to accept a license, which pops up.
On Agree the download starts. If not, no download is possible.
I searched through the extensions but did not find any extension doing the job. Maybe you know one...
So I tried to implement my own extension. Taking the strengths of securelinks (Allows access control to files from a configurable directory ... presents a license acceptation prior to download) and naw_securedl ("Secure Download": Apply TYPO3 access rights to ALL file assets (PDFs, TGZs or JPGs etc. - configurable) - protect them from direct access.) I wanted to combine both extensions to have one that:
whenever a pdf file is requested (naw_securedl)
a license is shown and in case of ACCEPT a redirect to the file happens (securelinks).
This task sounds very easy, since I only have to combine both tasks. Anyway, I failed.
How do you solve this problem?
Do you know some extension doing the job?
Is anyone interested in a cooperation in which we try to create an extension thats doing the job?
Thanks for your help in advance!
Assuming that all donwloads are stored in one folder, I'd recommend writing your own little extension that replaces every link with a link to an intermediate site, like this:
www.mydomain.com/acceptlicense.html?downloadfile=myhighqualitycontent.pdf.
On the accept license page, users need to check the accept license checkbox, then click a submit button, which leads them to the download page, still carrying the GET parameter:
www.mydomain.com/download.html?downloadfile=myhighqualitycontent.pdf.
If not all files are in the same folder, you can replace slashes in the file path with other characters (they need to work in the URL). Or you might need a database table that indexes the files, so you can use IDs for the download files:
www.mydomain.com/acceptlicense.html?downloadfileID=99
If you don't know at all how to write TYPO3 extensions, consider using individual php/html files out of the TYPO3 context.