Simple question, how do you get people or groups from a SharePoint People or Group field.

Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$site = Get-SPweb "http://www.sharepointed.com"

				$mList=$site.Lists["ListName"]
                                #you will want to provide a valid ID here:
				$item = $mList.GetItemById(<strong>"4"</strong>)
				$users=$item["MyPersonOrGroupField"]

				#build array of our Person or Groups
				$PeopleOrGroup = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

				If($PeopleOrGroup.Count -ge 0)
				{
					foreach($blah in $PeopleOrGroup)
						{
						 $parseUsr = $blah.ToString().Split('#')[1]
						 $PeopleOrGroup.add($parseUsr)
						}
				}

                                #now if you want to access our newly created array
                                Foreach($pg in $PeopleOrGroup)
                                {
                                     write-host $pg
                                }

Using the workflow actions from ilovesharepoint I’m doing the following.

1. Setup a Contact List (Customers) with these additional fields: Customer Site (Hyperlink), UserPermissions(Person or Group), Customer Status (Choice)

2. Using the ilovesharepoint Create a new site action, create a new customer site.  Using the Output variable of this action, write the URL to our Customer Site field.

3. Use the ilovesharepoint Execute PowerShell action to run our PowerShell script.

Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
 $site = Get-SPweb "http://www.sharepointed.com"

$mList=$site.Lists["Customers"]
 #Here you will want to add the ID of the item calling the workflow.
 #Simply remove [%Current Item:ID%], click on Add or Change Lookup, and add the ID field
 $item = $mList.GetItemById([%Current Item:ID%])
 $ActionType=$Item["Customer Status"]
 $CustomerSite= new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUrlValue($item["Customer Site"])
 $ClientSiteURL=$CustomerSite.URL
 $users=$item["UserPermissions"]

#build array of User Permissions
 $PowerUsr = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList

If($users.Count -ge 0)
 {
 foreach($usr in $users)
 {
 $parseUsr = $usr.ToString().Split('#')[1]
 $PowerUsr.add($parseUsr)
 }
 }

$site.Dispose()

$web = Get-SPWeb $ClientSiteURL
 $SDlist = $web.Lists["Shared Documents"]

#break role inheritance
 $SDlist.BreakRoleInheritance($true)

#remove all permissions from the List
 foreach ($assignment in $SDlist.RoleAssignments)
 {
 $assignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.RemoveAll();
 $assignment.Update();
 }

# Customer Status = Active
 If ($ActionType -eq "Active")
 {
 if($PowerUsr.Count -ge 0)
 {
 foreach($Ausr in $PowerUsr)
 {
 $account = $web.SiteGroups[$Ausr]
 $role = $web.RoleDefinitions["Contribute"]

$assignment = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleAssignment($account)
 $assignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add($role)
 $SDlist.RoleAssignments.Add($assignment)
 }
 }
 }

# Customer Status = Not Active
 If ($ActionType -eq "Not Active")
 {
 if($PowerUsr.Count -ge 0)
 {
 foreach($Ausr in $PowerUsr)
 {
 $account = $web.SiteGroups[$Ausr]
 $role = $web.RoleDefinitions["Read"]

$assignment = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleAssignment($account)
 $assignment.RoleDefinitionBindings.Add($role)
 $SDlist.RoleAssignments.Add($assignment)
 }
 }
 }

$SDlist.Update()
 $web.Dispose()

The script gets the URL of our sub site and permissions we are wanting to set on the Shared Documents library. By setting the Customer Status to Active or Not Active, the script will change the permissions accordingly.

Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Solutions (Galleries Section)

http://sharepointed.com/_catalogs/solutions/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If you do not see the Solutions link, you will need to navigate to the root site / top level site.

You will not see the link in a Sub Site.

First you will need to create a batch file to call the PowerShell warmup script.  The batch file will need to live in your Startup folder. By doing this, the script will run on server startup.

*update*  what if you want to pause / delay the batch file? Simply add a “timeout /t 5″ after the @echo off statement.  *remove the quotes and 5 is measured in seconds.*

@echo off
timeout /t 5
powershell.exe d:\PowerShellScripts\warmup.ps1

The PowerShell warmup script:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;

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

Get-SPAlternateUrl -Zone Default | foreach-object {
 write-host $_.IncomingUrl;
 $html = Get-WebPage -url $_.IncomingUrl;
}

warmup script was created by Jon Badgett

http://www.jonthenerd.com/2011/04/19/easy-sharepoint-2010-warmup-script-using-powershell/

Over and over, I was getting stuck at the window that said Starting Windows.

Ended up removing the video card and restarted the box. BAM, I was able to install Windows 7 from the USB drive.

Live n’ learn!

Error: You are not allowed to respond again to this survey.

Either the user has already taken the survey or they started taking the survey and never finished.

You can try going in and deleting what they have already done.  Or allow users to take the survey more than once.

How to allow users to take survey again:

Your Survey –>  Survey Settings –> General Settings

Survey Option –> Allow multiple responses –> Yes

Then click save.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –erroraction SilentlyContinue
$site = Get-SPSite "http://www.sharepointed.com/tacoSiteCollection"
$web = $site.RootWeb
$listTemplates = $site.GetCustomListTemplates($web)

foreach($xx in $listTemplates)
 {
 Write-Host $xx.FeatureId
 }

$site.Dispose()

How do I build the formula?  Go into your list, add a new calculated column, create your formula, test the formula.  If it works, copy the formula and delete the column.

$site = Get-SPweb "http://sharepointed.com/site/salsa/"

$mList=$site.Lists["Nacho"]

 $mList.Fields.Add("Calculated Date Field", "Calculated", 0)
 $SPField = $mList.Fields.GetField("Calculated Date Field")
 $SPField.Formula="=DATE(YEAR([Document Date])+7,MONTH([Document Date])+0,DAY([Document Date])+0)"
 $SPField.OutputType="DateTime"
 $SPField.Update()

$site.Dispose()

$web = Get-SPweb "http://sharepointed.com/sites/taco"

		$pubWeb =[Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($web)
		$pl = $pubWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts()
		foreach($p in $pl)
		{
			Write-Host $p.Name
		}
$site.Dispose()

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –erroraction SilentlyContinue

$spWeb = Get-SPweb "http://sharepointed.com/sites/taco"

	foreach($subSite in $spWeb.Webs)
		{
			$subSite.Title
			$subSite.Dispose()
		}

$spWeb.Dispose()

1. add the SharePoint Snapin
2. get the site that we want to dig into.
3. loop on each subsite
3.1. display the site title
3.2. close the connection to the subsite.
4. close the connection to the site we dug into.