Jan 7, 2013

The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa

Some times while activating the Publishing feature in SharePoint through the options in Site Settings we will get this error:
The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa

Reason:
The reason being the "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" feature has to be enabled at SITE COLLECTION level, then it has to be activated at SITE LEVEL enable the feature. So that we can create Publishing pages in SharePoint.

Solution:
It can be done in many ways (2 ways mentioned below):
1. We can use the Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Site Collection Features to enable this feature.
2. Then Site Settings -> Site Administration -> Site Features -> Enable this feature.
3. We can also achieve this using STSADM command as shown below:
STSADM.EXE -o deactivatefeature -id f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa -url "http://SiteURLHere/" -force
Then,
STSADM.EXE -o activatefeature -id f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa -url "SiteURLHere" -force
Hope this helps you!

Export SharePoint Group to Excel using PowerShell

$siteUrl="SiteURLHere"
$groupName="GroupNametoExport"
$Output = @("GroupName|Name|Login|Email|Department|Title")
$web = Get-SPWeb $siteUrl
$site = $web.Site
$rootWeb = $site.RootWeb
$UserList = $rootWeb.Lists["User Information List"]
$web.SiteGroups[$groupName].Users|%{$user = $UserList.GetItemById($_.ID)
if($user -ne $null)
{
$JobTitle = $user["JobTitle"]
$Department = $user["Department"]
}
$Output += ($groupName+"|"+$_.Name+"|"+$_.UserLogin+"|"+$_.Email+"|"+$ Department +"|"+$JobTitle)
}
$rootWeb.Dispose()
$web.Dispose()
$site.Dispose()
$Output > "D:\MembersExport.csv"

Import Excel to SharePoint List using PowerShell

# Import the .csv file, and specify manually the headers, without column name in the file 
$contents = Import-CSV ‘C:\Input.csv' -header("Employee ID", "Employee Name")
# Web URL
$webURL = “SITEURL here”
$web = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webURL
$listName = "ListNameHere"
$list= $web.Lists["$listName"] 
# Iterate for each list column
foreach ($row in $contents )
{
    $item = $list.Items.Add();
    $item["Employee ID"] = $row.GroupName
    $item["Employee Name"] = $row.Permissions
    $item.Update()
}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "List Updated Successfully"
$web.Dispose()

Jan 6, 2013

Import Users from Excel to SharePoint using PowerShell

# Import the .csv file, and specify manually the headers, without column name in the file 
$userList=IMPORT-CSV C:\UserToUpload.csv -header("GroupName","UserName")

#Get the site name to the variable
$web = Get-SPWeb SiteURLHere

foreach ($user in $userList)
{
$groupName = $web.SiteGroups[$userList.group]
$user = $web.Site.RootWeb.EnsureUser($userList.user)
$groupName.AddUser($user)
}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "Users Added Successfully"
}
$Web.Dispose()

Add Users to SharePoint Group using PowerShell

#Get the site name to the variable
$web = Get-SPWeb SitURLHere
#Get the group name to the variable
$groupName = $web.SiteGroups["Group Name Here"]
#Assign user to variable
$user = $web.Site.RootWeb.EnsureUser(“User ID Here”)
#Add user to group 
$groupName.AddUser($user)
Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "User Added Successfully";