Over the years, one of the biggest hurdles that I’ve encountered, is the need to add apps across many SharePoint Online sites. Microsoft hasn’t provided a way to do this. Many people have looked into PowerShell, but there just never seemed to be a way to do it. In a recent conversation with one company, […]
I hit a weird issue today, when I logged into a SharePoint 2013 environment with credentials that weren’t allowed to use it. The result was an error page and in the url, I could see an AccessDenied.aspx. The thing is, it didn’t allow me to try different credentials. I found that I have to do […]
It seems that getting information out of a CSV file and into SharePoint is a common request. I’m sure there a number of ways to get this done, but this post will be about how to parse CSV files using Nintex Workflow. We first start off with a simple SharePoint list that contains a First […]
When a Nintex workflow runs in SharePoint, it can have one of a number of states. Below is a list of the out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow states. Status Internal Status ID Description Not Started 0 The workflow has not started. Failed on Start 1 Indicates that the workflow encountered an error when it started. In Progress […]
WARNING DO NOT run this on a production system unless absolutely necessary. It iterates through all sites, lists, items and workflows. I have not tested this for performance and system impact. There have been some requests on how to cancel all running workflows. I’ve looked online and have found a number of C# and PowerShell […]
Start of the Story Querying a database is something I do quite regularly. Whether it’s for work at Nintex or other projects. Sometimes this is just from using SQL Management Studio, othertimes, it is for something more complex and requires some code to be written that makes SQL queries and does something on the data. […]
After learning the basics in the first post – PowerShell Basics 101 , the aim is to use this new found knowledge to do some interesting things with SharePoint. Connecting to a SharePoint Site If you open the SharePoint 2010 Management Console, all the appropriate assemblies for SharePoint will be loaded for you. To instantiate […]
Here’s a few basics that I’m aware of that make things easier for me when I play around with PowerShell. Variables PowerShell variables all start with a dollar ($) sign.Initializing a variable requires simply giving it a name, followed by an equals (=) and the value $myVar = 1 If you want to initialize a […]
I recently found some SharePoint log entries that pointed to a feature but only gave me an ID (guid). Hunting around, I found the easiest way to figure out what feature it was, was to open SQL Management Studio. Find the SharePoint database, in my case WSS_Content. There are 2 tables of interest. Features FeatureTracking […]