If I find (or create) a new PowerShell cmdlet (or function), how do I add it to my machine?
Do I copy it to a particular folder?
Do I put its content in a particular file?
Do I need to authorize it, or sign it, or give it permission in some way?
I don't want to use it in just one session; I want it to be available whenever I use PowerShell on this machine.
As Alex mentions, any function defined in your profile or in a script that gets "dotted" into your profile will always be available. The same goes if you use Add-PSSnapin in your profile to add a snapin. The cmdlets in the snapin will always be available. For more information about profiles check out the help topic:
man about_profiles
However if you have a significant number of functions you may not want to load them until they are needed. In this case, you can organize functionality into scripts and then put those scripts into one or more directories that are in your path. You can then reference the script by name without specifying the full path or even the .PS1 extension. For more information about using scripts check out the help topic:
man about_scripts
PowerShell V2 introduces an even better approach to organizing functions and loading them on demand. The feature is called Modules and allows you to Import-Module by a simple name (rather than path) and to choose which functions and variable are made public versus which ones remain private. If you have V2, check out modules:
man about_modules
You should access the cmdlets through your profile script. That way, every time you access PowerShell, it gets loaded. See The Power of Profiles.
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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 trying to give access to users on an application on AAD by powershell or Graph API. I have a list of 60 users and I don't want to do it by hand. I've investigate in AAD cmdleds but I didn't find anything useful for me. Is there any way for doing that?
Thanks a lot.
You can do so through PowerShell with a module from this blog post.
After you download the module, edit it, create a csv file containing your 60 users, run 4 cmdlets and you're done!
(Remember to restart PowerShell if you make an edit to the psm1 module in the middle of a PowerShell session, reimporting doesn't clear the cache.)
Here's the situation. I'm am completely new to PowerShell so use small words...
I have a new user in Active Directory that I need to add to about 100 computers as efficiently as possible. My hope was that I could make a PowerShell script that would add the user either through a login script or remotely. I need to have a bit of precision control over this deployment because we don't want to push this user to every computer in the company.
Can PowerShell help me with this, and if not do you all have some sage advice that could help?
To add a user to the local administrators group using PowerShell:
([ADSI]"WinNT://./Administrators,group").Add("WinNT://your-domain/new-user,user")
Just replace the your-domain and new-user parts of the command with the appropriate values for your environment.
I've gotten comfortable using icacls to add people to file folders but now I am having trouble figuring out how to do the following:
on a folder with many children, g
get the existing permissions on the folder and store them
Add a bunch of new users, propogating to all children and turning on inheritance, replace and force (already working from previous scripts)
check the top level folder and remove any permissions not placed on in step 2.
now that the parent folder has the correct permissions and all children have inheritance set, set all children to have the same permissions as the parent (recompute acl inheritance?)
thanks for any help you all can provide, I just need a push to get into the right direction.
If you're using PowerShell, you don't need icacls (which returns text instead of objects) since you have have Get-Acl and Set-Acl. However, the help for those two commands is severely lacking, so I recommend supplementing with the .NET framework.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730951.aspx is a very good article on ACLs using the .NET framework in PowerShell. If you need more in depth information on System.Security.AccessControl, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.accesscontrol.aspx.