PowerShell makes it easy to backup your SharePoint farm. And combined with the Task Scheduler, it makes you even more productive! In today’s blog post, we’ll use PowerShell to create the SharePoint Farm backup scripts, and automate them with the Task Scheduler. We’ll create 2x backup scripts: Full backup > will run weekly Differential backup > will run daily The…
For the first post of the year, we’ll learn how to assign only specific services (ServicePlan) to users in Office 365, and for efficiency as always, we’ll use PowerShell to do so! 🙂 You may have some O365 users in your organisation where, you only wish to give them access to Exchange Online, or SharePoint Online, and so on. Be…
If you’re like me and like to have “clean” names for your SharePoint databases, then you’d want to rename the Admin Content database in your SharePoint Server 2016 if you haven’t used a scripted installation. The first time I installed SP2016 and used my script for SP2013 to rename the Admin Content database, I was faced with a strange red…
The way you use PowerShell for SharePoint Online (SPO) is a bit different than with SharePoint Server. You don’t have access to the SPO servers, and you have way less cmdlets available compared to SharePoint Server. But thanks to very nice people out there, we can now use SharePoint PnP (Patterns & Practices) to create or retrieve things easily. For…
When you think about it, having users licensed in Office 365, while they can’t login, it’s not a very good use of money. Maybe you need to keep the license for the mailbox/data not to go away, or maybe the user left the company and you blocked his/her access for security reasons (change the password for better security) while you…
