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Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate stuck Today I used PnP PowerShell to provision one of my sites. For some reason my Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate CmdLet just didn’t want to run properly. Every time I ran Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate … read the pnp-powershell-apply-pnpprovisioningtemplate-stuck-on-initiliazing-engine post
Sometimes you run into an issue that is difficult to resolve. Recently I’ve been running a PowerShell script that needs to create 6000 site collections and even more sub sites … read the sharepoint-long-running-powershell-migration-scripts-fail-on-install-spusersolution post
Today I tried to install PnPPowerShell within an Azure PowerShell Environment. In the past I tried just to copy all files in a folder within my Azure environment and user … read the azure-powershell-install-pnp-powershell-using-inlinescript-within-a-release-definition-in-vsts post
Have you ever tried to migrate a site from an on-premises SharePoint environment to Office 365? Or have you tried keeping development, test and production sites in sync? Within an … read the office-365-sharepoint-20132016-moving-sites-around post
Today I tried to create a site using New-PnPWeb and I received the following erro message: New-PnPWeb : Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to initialize some site properties for … read the office-365-sharepoint-new-pnpweb-provisioning-did-not-succeed-details-failed-to-initialize-some-site-properties-for-web-at-url-originalexception-the-request-uses-too-many-resources post
Over the last year or so many of my posts have been related to the PnP Provisioning Engine. I’ve created multiple scripts to replicate my whole intranet from one tenant … read the office-365-sharepoint-20132016-replicating-or-migrating-sharepoint-sites post
Get Field names from a list Today I tried to load the Fields from a list using PnP PowerShell and CSOM. $ctx = Get-PnPContext $list = Get-PnPList -Web $web -Identity … read the the-object-is-used-in-the-context post
Over the last year or so many of my posts have been related to the PnP Provisioning Engine. I’ve created multiple scripts to replicate my whole intranet from one tenant … read the office-365-pnp-replicating-sharepoint-based-intranets-pages-are-not-replicated post
SharePoint has it’s own Contact list with its own content type, Contact. But what if you want to customize this list. What should you do? A couple of common customization … read the office-365-sharepoint-create-your-own-contact-list post
Quite a while back I experienced the following error generated by the Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate Cmdlet. Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Today I received the same error … read the office-365-apply-pnpprovisioningtemplate-exception-has-been-thrown-by-the-target-of-an-invocation post
The current version of the PnP provisioning engine doesn’t like external lists.To make this work you will need to do some work. When exporting a template external lists are included … read the office-365-pnp-provisioning-engine-making-external-lists-work post
Today I ran the latest version of the PnP PowerShell Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate Cmdlet to apply some templates and I noticed that pages weren’t updated. Updating pages skipped I noticed the following … read the apply-pnpprovisioningtemplate-updating-pages post
Today I tried to apply a PnP template to a publishing site and I was getting the following error. Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate : The object specified does not belong to a list. … read the office-365-apply-pnpprovisioningtemplate-with-publishing-pages post
Today, I looked at how to retrieve a list of users that don’t have a user profile photo using PowerShell. Once again I’m using PnP PowerShell. First I connect to … read the office-365-get-all-users-without-a-user-profile-photo-using-pnp-powershell post
Using the latest version of PnP PowerShell some new Cmdlets have been introduced. I’m going to have a look at some of these new commands in this post that help … read the creating-office-365-groups-using-pnp-powershell post