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Powershell Set-Acl: an exception of type system.security.principal.identitynotmappedexception was thrown

Nov 4, 2022 · 3 min read · Powershell

I have this short little PowerShell function that I use all over the place. It simply adds an ACL entry to an object, usually a network folder: 1function AddNTFSPermissions($path, $object, $permission) { 2 $FileSystemRights = [System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights]$permission 3 $InheritanceFlag = …

Uploading PDF's to SharePoint Online

Oct 28, 2022 · 16 min read · powershell pdf itext

The problem... I have something like 1200 PDfs, and the list is growing, of deliverables that we own the copywrite to that we want to put in a central place called SharePoint Online. This library will then get the benefit of being searchable, have associated metadata, and should free up time from a bunch of people for …

Employee Directory in SharePoint Online

Oct 19, 2022 · 8 min read · sharepoint powershell

The Issue We have been working on a long, slow project to bring some new services online for our staff. One is our "Knowledge Hub", the other is our "Connect" site - a SharePoint Hub site, linking various functional group's SharePoint sites together. This post is about "Connect". One …

Windows Firewall

Apr 2, 2022 · 5 min read · Powershell Office 365

Another post with notes from my former to my future self. What was I trying to do? We had to wire up a firewall configuration policy for a group of computers so that they'd be prevented from accessing the internet. Ok, no problem, except that our email comes from Office 365 which happens to be on the internet. …

Manipulating PDFs with iText in powershell

Feb 7, 2021 · 4 min read · powershell pdf itext

So, I can write a PDF... Last post I managed to generate an empty PDF with Powershell using iText, after working through dependencies and order of inclusion for running some .NET libraries in powershell. It's made me wonder if there's a better way to handle the inclusion of libraries in a Powershell script, and if …

Nuget in Powershell

Feb 4, 2021 · 4 min read · powershell

Using nuget stuff in Powershell I was asked to write some automation to deal with several thousand pages of PDF work.. Cool, sounds like something new, and not quite in my wheelhouse, so a good reason to get to some learning. After a bit of searching (and searching through old work), I find that iText7 seems to be the …

PnP Powershell - for Sharepoint

Jan 31, 2021 · 9 min read · Sharepoint Powershell

Work is finally getting around to enabling OneDrive for Business (ODFB) for all our users. This is cool, because finally we'll be able to legit be able to collaborate on stuff - instead of this song and dance of save files to the network, wait for a lock to close and so on. One of the things we ran up against is that …