I am speaking in Abu Dhabi SharePoint Saturday

The event is on 5 Oct 2013 from 8 AM to 5 PM in Abu Dhabi. Once venue is published by the organizer, will update this post so save the link & make sure you check it again this week.

My session will be about “Automate variations for SharePoint 2013”

The whole session will be about what to write in PowerShell Script & C# to automate variation.

I will show a demo & provide tools to make it easier too.

Session description: SharePoint Variations gives a Multilingual SharePoint sites which allows copying sites and content from the source variation label to one or more target variation labels. The real value from this session is to fasten your deployment, make it reliable, stable, faster & easier to do with some lines of PowerShell Scripts. In this session we will learn the best practice when it comes to deployment with Variations. First we will write code in C# & convert it to PowerShell for Variations. Will show a demo for the whole process for SharePoint 2013 Variations from scratch till the end by keeping an eye on the Variation Jobs from PowerShell Scripts. You will know the Tips & Tricks for the variation including settings, configuring variation, creating labels & creating hierarchies; all from PowerShell, finally it is important to know the best practices for working with variations and with deploying it.

Automate Variations in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell & C#

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C-sharp, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, Multilingual, Multilingual sites, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, Variations, Windows PowerShell

“Thanks to Waldek Mastykarz for his post, he posted about it but for SP 2010 and only in C#” but then I was able to convert it to Powershell, also thanks to “Eric Soo” for his reply but I was done already but thank you both.”

Let’s Start.. Automating variations settings and configuration so whenever a deployment is needed, you will be ready with your PowerShell scripts.

Manual deployment is time consuming as it is repetitive task, in this post I will let you know how to automate one of those many tasks when it comes to deployment.

SharePoint Variations has a UI which I will show you its steps now;

The steps in this post is for automation of variation in UI, in C# & finally in PowerShell.

1. Go to “Site Actions” à“Site settings”;
   
2. Under “Site collection administration”, click “Variation Settings”,
   

   

3. The code below is in C# for the page above to change or update the “Variation Settings”;
   

   
   
   

4. The same code but this time in PowerShell,
   

   
   

5. Now we need to create labels; go back to “Site Settings”, under “Site Collection Administration” click “Variation Settings”;
   

   

6. I have 2 labels, currently if this is your first time, it will be empty, click now “New Label” (as if you are telling SharePoint List to create new item) since we will do this in the code 😉
   

   
   

7. Now same code but PowerShell for creating variation labels;
   

   
   

   
   

8. Now to create hierarchies; you should see the labels added as below, click above them “Create Hierarchies”, before creating hierarchies, the values for the labels are “No”,
   

   

9. After creating hierarchies, the values should be yes under “Hierarchy is Created”,
   
10. To create Hierarchies in C#,
    

    
    

11. Now let’s create hierarchies in PowerShell,
    

    
    

     

    Thank you and please write your comments or in case you have any questions.

Out-GridView …. Not Supported Exception

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PowerShell, SharePoint 2010

Today I was writing some PowerShell functions and I wanted to see the results in GridView like below;

This output to the results from PowerShell in GridView and as if it is a windows application..

And I got exception in the first screenshot saying “ [ Out-GridView ], Not supported exception.

But that was easy since PowerShell is telling you how to solve it.

In the coming line from the exception it is saying, “ Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment Feature from Server Manager. “

You need to go Features in Server Manager..

And Install….

That was easy and start forward from PowerShell !