Automatic Context Switching in PnP PowerShell

PnP PowerShell does something we call ‘context switching’. Let me show you how this is making your life a tiny bit easier: Connect-PnPOnline https://contoso.sharepoint.com Get-PnPList Get-PnPTenantSite This will connect first to your root site collection in your tenant, return all the lists in the site, and then the next cmdlet will show you all the (classic) site collections in your tenant. Normally you would have to connect (if you’re a developer, you have to create a new ClientContext) to your tenant admin site first in order to do this. Continue reading

Getting started with the PnP Provisioning Engine and PnP PowerShell

Two of the most popular cmdlets in the PnP PowerShell module are Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate and its sibling Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate. Follow me in this post where I dive into using them and show how make the most of them in your provisioning flow. Creating a Template Okay, so while it’s totally possible to start creating a template by hand from scratch, it’s a daunting task for sure. The PnP Provisioning Engine supports so many artifacts and each artifact has so many properties, you’ll end up browsing the schema documentation for hours to come. Continue reading

PnP PowerShell and multi-factor authentication

If you use PnP PowerShell, you might be aware of the fact that there many many ways to authenticate towards your SharePoint Online Tenant. If you have multi-factor authentication enabled on your tenant, basically the only way for you to connect to your tenant was by using the -UseWebLogin method. The way it worked is that we launched a browser window, you authenticated, and we captured the authentication cookie that was returned by the browser. Continue reading

Cross Platform PnP PowerShell

For a long time I played with the thought: wouldn’t it be nice if we could use PnP PowerShell on other platforms than just Windows? I realize that the majority of you are most likely running Windows, but there is a (albeit minor) part of you that prefer to work on a Mac, and most likely even a smaller part runs on Linux. However, with the growth and functionality of Azure, another possible location to run your cmdlets show up: in a Docker image (which is based upon Linux for instance). Continue reading

The PnP PowerShell Cmdlets are now available on the PowerShell Gallery

Update: links updated to changed package names Until today you had basically two options to install the Office Developer Patterns and Practices PowerShell Cmdlets: you either downloaded the GitHub repository and build your own version, or you downloaded the binary installers and installed the module. While both ways will be supported in the future, I believe we have a better/easier way to distribute the cmdlets, and that’s through the PowerShell Gallery available at https://www. Continue reading

The case of Get-SPOSite

If you use both the PnP cmdlets and the Microsoft Office 365 Management cmdlets, you might have noticed that both have an Get-SPOSite cmdlet. And those conflict. There are a few ways around that problem, but they are cumbersome. To resolve this, basically the only way is either them (Microsoft) or us (PnP) rename the Get-SPOSite cmdlet. So we sat down with the PnP Core team, looked at a few scenarios, and we came up with what I describe a bit below in this post. Continue reading

Changes to the PnP PowerShell Cmdlets Naming

Following the changes in the PnP Core Library naming, the PnP PowerShell Cmdlets have been renamed too. Besides that, we added another version of the PowerShell module too. Internal naming We renamed the internal project name and the namespaces from OfficeDevPnP to SharePointPnP Old OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.Commands OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.Tests OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.Setup OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.CmdletHelpAttributes OfficeDevPnP.PowerShell.CmdletHelpGenerator New SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Tests SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Setup (deprecated/removed in the latest master branch) SharePointPnP.PowerShell.CmdletHelpAttributes SharePointPnP.PowerShell.CmdletHelpGenerator Packages on the PowerShell Gallery We also renamed the packages on the PowerShell Gallery to a more intuitive naming (we think): Continue reading