Create a console app to query userprofileservice.asmx

In Visual Studio, create a console application.
Create a web reference using the following inputs:
URL: https://yourSite.url/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx?WSDL
Name: UPS1

In the program.cs class, replace the Main method with the following:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
UPS1.UserProfileService ups1 = new UPS1.UserProfileService();

ups1.UseDefaultCredentials = true;

UPS1.PropertyData[] info = ups1.GetUserProfileByName(@"domain\username");

for (int i = 0; i < info.Length; i++) { Console.WriteLine(info[i].Name); for (int j = 0; j < info[i].Values.Length; j++) { Console.WriteLine(info[i].Values[j].Value); } } Console.ReadLine(); } 

Run the app.

Searching SharePoint Using PowerShell

In this example, I needed to search a farm for every site under a managed path. BUT, the sites I’m searching for were built using a 3rd part tool and would not correctly appear in the search results.  The problem was related to having Trim Duplicates enabled by default.  Easy fix… Set your search property trim duplicates = false.

$site = Get-SPSite "https://sharepointed.com"

$keywordQuery = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.KeywordQuery($site)<br>$queryText = "ContentClass:STS_Site AND Path:https://sharepointed.com/TACOS/*"

$keywordQuery.QueryText = $queryText<br>$keywordQuery.TrimDuplicates = $false 
$searchExec = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.SearchExecutor<br>$searchResults = $searchExec.ExecuteQuery($keywordQuery)

Write-Host "'r'n"
$table = $searchResults.Table
Write-Host $table.Length" Results Found" -BackgroundColor "Green" -ForegroundColor "Black"
$table | select Title, Path, IsDocument

The search results will display all sites that have Taco as its managed path. If you are not retrieving the results you expect, try switching TrimDuplicates = $false .

Remove Upload Button and Drag files here to upload text

There might be a better way to get this done, but for now, this works for me. Keep in mind this update works on a per view basis. If I find a way to correctly update the masterpage, I will update this post.

At a high level, you will need to modify the page, add two content editor web parts, and save.

A normal page displaying the Upload button and Drag files here to upload text.

Start by editing the page.  Top right of the screen, click the gear icon, then select Edit Page.  Once in edit make, add two Content Editor web parts to the page.

Place your cursor in the top web part, and select Edit Source in the Format Text ribbon window.

In the Source window, enter the following text: link to script

Update the second web part by inserting the following text: link to script

Once the web parts have been updated, click on Stop Editing.

All done.

You can also upload the attached web parts to your page:  zip file of web parts

Email address is incorrect for user in SharePoint

In the process of migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2016 and ran into a small problem.

When trying to get the email property from the SPUser class, it returned a value of domain\userName. Clearly, this is not correct and caused some other issues.

Sample code

$web = Get-SPWeb "https://webapp.taco/toppings/cheese"
$userEnsure = $web.EnsureUser("domain\yourNameHere")
write-host $userEnsure.Email

Running this returned domain\yourNameHere, when it should have returned yourname@domain.com.

Navigate to Central Admin, then cruise over to your User Profile Service. Once there, run a full synchronization.
Profile Service –> Synchronization –> Start Profile Synchronization –> Start Full Synchronization

Run the PowerShell script again, and it will return the correct data.

Same idea as above but using the SharePoint ClientContext.

            using (ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("https://webapp.taco/toppings/cheese"))
            {
                Web web = clientContext.Web;

                clientContext.Load(web);
                clientContext.Load(web.CurrentUser);
                clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

                var userEmail = web.CurrentUser.Email;
           }

SharePoint listdata.svc Returns Error – FIXED

With SharePoint 2016 and 2013:
If you try to access listdata.svc you receive an error This page can’t be displayed or Sorry, something went wrong.
SharePoint Designer, you try to open Lists and Libraries and receive a message of There are no items to show in this view.

The root problem is that the Farm is missing a feature. In SPD, if you click on All Files, Lists, then click on each list and click the Preview in Browser button (ribbon). You will sooner or later find the problem list. From there, you can remove the list or find the problem feature and unhook it.

Basic script to find the problem list in SharePoint 2013 and 2016:

function Get-WebPage([string]$url)
{
	$pageContents = ""

	try
	{
		$wc = new-object net.webclient;
		$wc.credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials;
		$pageContents = $wc.DownloadString($url);
		$wc.Dispose();
	}
	catch{}
    return $pageContents;
}

$webX = Get-SPWeb "https://yourSpWebUrl"

foreach($list in $webX.Lists)
{
	$listUrl = $list.ParentWeb.Url + "/" + $list.RootFolder.Url

	$xo = Get-WebPage -url $listUrl 

	if($xo -like "*Sorry, something went wrong*")
	{
		Write-Host $listUrl
	}
}

Officialfile.asmx SharePoint 2013 and 2016

As part of a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 migration I needed to test the Officialfile.asmx service. When testing the service I encountered this error:
NotFound

string sFilePath = @"c\taco.txt";
byte[] fileContent = File.ReadAllBytes(sFilePath );

List<My_Web_Ref.RecordsRepositoryProperty> props = new List<My_Web_Ref.RecordsRepositoryProperty>();

//populate the properties for the document
props.Add(new My_Web_Ref.RecordsRepositoryProperty { Name = "Title", Type = "Text", Value = "Taco" });

result = repo.SubmitFile(fileContent, props.ToArray(), null, sFilePath , "domain\\userName");

Adding my account or the account that is submitting files to this group resolved the issue.
Records Center Web Service Submitters

Uploading Files to SharePoint 2016 Using ListData.svc

Update
Another issue we ran into was related to client machines having an outdated cert. Once the updated cert was published to SharePoint, the client machines downloaded the new cert and were able to upload it to SharePoint.

Ran into a small issue when testing some code for a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 migration.

With SharePoint 2010, the following code sample would work to upload files to a library.

//ServRef is a Service Reference to _vti_bin/ListData.svc
string sharePointSvc = "https://sp2016.some.url/sites/random/_vti_bin/ListData.svc";

            using (FileStream file = File.Open(@"C:\test1.docx", FileMode.Open))
            {
                ServRef.RandomDataContext ctx = new ServRef.RandomDataContext(new Uri(sharePointSvc));

                ctx.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

                string filename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file.Name);
                string path = "/sites/random/dropofflibrary/" + Path.GetFileName(file.Name);
                string contentType = "Interest Summary";

                ServRef.DropOffLibraryItem documentItem = new ServRef.DropOffLibraryItem()
                {
                    ContentType = contentType,
                    Name = filename,
                    Title = filename
                };

                ctx.AddToDropOffLibrary(documentItem);
                ctx.SetSaveStream(documentItem, file, false, contentType, path);

                try
                {
                    ctx.SaveChanges();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    var err = ex.Message;
                    throw;
                }
            }

When trying to use this same code with SharePoint 2016, I was receiving the following Errors:
Output error: An error occurred while processing this request.

Errors from Fiddler:
Auth:
No Proxy-Authenticate Header is present.

No WWW-Authenticate Header is present.

Caching:

Under RFC2616, HTTP/500 responses will not be cached regardless of what caching headers may be present. HTTP/1.1 Cache-Control Header is present: no-cache

This response does not specify explicit HTTP Cache Lifetime information and does not specify a Last-Modified date. Heuristic expiration is typically based on Last-Modified date. Lacking Last-Modified, this response may be revalidated on every use or once per browsing session, depending on the browser configuration.

This response contains neither an ETAG nor a Last-Modified time. This will prevent a Conditional Revalidation of this response.

FIX
For SharePoint 2016, the upload process required that the Path property be populated.

//ServRef is a Service Reference to _vti_bin/ListData.svc
string sharePointSvc = "https://sp2016.some.url/sites/random/_vti_bin/ListData.svc";

            using (FileStream file = File.Open(@"C:\test1.docx", FileMode.Open))
            {
                ServRef.RandomDataContext ctx = new ServRef.RandomDataContext(new Uri(sharePointSvc));

                ctx.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

                string filename = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(file.Name);
                string path = "/sites/random/dropofflibrary/" + Path.GetFileName(file.Name);
                string contentType = "Interest Summary";

                ServRef.DropOffLibraryItem documentItem = new ServRef.DropOffLibraryItem()
                {
                    Path = path,
                    ContentType = contentType,
                    Name = filename,
                    Title = filename
                };

                ctx.AddToDropOffLibrary(documentItem);
                ctx.SetSaveStream(documentItem, file, false, contentType, path);

                try
                {
                    ctx.SaveChanges();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    var err = ex.Message;
                    throw;
                }
            }

Make Your PowerShell Script Environment Aware

In place of hard-coding URLs for each environment, I decided to make a single script that is environmentally aware. Why? Cuts down on the number of scripts that have to be supported for a single development cycle. To make this more dynamic, you could move this to a function script and reference it from all your scripts.

if ((Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)
{
	Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
}

#get config database server
$ConfigDB = Get-SPDatabase | where-Object{$_.Type -eq "Configuration Database"}
$serverName = $ConfigDB.Server.Displayname

#replace this with the web app you want to target.  taco, burrito, nacho...
$webApp = "taco"

#set variable equal to the environment url
$siteURL = switch ($serverName.ToLower())
{
	"dev_db" {"http://$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"test_db" {"http://test$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"build_db" {"http://build$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"prod_db" {"http://$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
}

Same as above, but using a wildcard in the switch statement.

$siteURL = switch -Wildcard ($serverName.ToLower())
{
	"*dev*" {"http://$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"*test*" {"http://test$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"*build*" {"http://build$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
	"*prod*" {"http://$webApp.sharepointed.com/"}
}

Make sure to check $serverName = $ConfigDB.Server.Displayname
This might need to be replaced with $ConfigDB.Displayname

Use PowerShell to get all your SQL databases and their size

Quick script to get all the databases on a server, then output to a CSV file.

In this example, all I needed was the database name and its size.

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO') | out-null
$s = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') "YourSQLServer"
$dbs=$s.Databases
$dbs | SELECT Name, Size | Export-Csv c:\test.txt

Other properties:

$dbs | SELECT Name, Collation, CompatibilityLevel, AutoShrink, RecoveryModel, Size, SpaceAvailable

Credit for the base script:
Edwin M Sarmiento

Update Password in Remote Desktop Manager RDCMAN

I can never manage to remember how to do this. Simple enough, how do you update your login credentials in Remote Desktop Manager ( RDCMAN )?

Right click on the root node and select Properties.

Select the Security Settings tab, then click on Source: default settings group.
A new window will open, in it, select the Profile Management tab.
Select the account you want to update, click the Edit button on right, then click Ok on the bottom.

All done.