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Smarter way of loading SharePoint CSOM dll in PowerShell

1 Comment Posted by Anatoly Mironov on 2021-06-02

Have you also got a legacy powershell script that loads SharePoint dlls and runs CSOM code directly? It’s quite easy to convert to PnP PowerShell. But if you run out of time and just need to execute the script, then I have a quick tip for you.

First of all, a CSOM script can be recognized by Add-Type commands (or Import-Module) plus the SharePoint dll paths.

The odds are high that you don’t have those directories and files, unless you run it on a SharePoint Server (who would do that at all?) or you have installed the SharePoint SDK.

SharePoint SDK can be downloaded and installed (as suggested here), but why would you want to do that? An easier way is just to locate the files that are distributed with the PnP.PowerShell module, let me show how to do that.

All the dlls are available from the PnP.PowerShell module directory:

So the only thing you need to do is to re-point the path from the original (the “GAC”) folder to the PnP.PowerShell folder. You don’t need to guess the folder. It’s easy.

Thanks to the PowerTip: Find the Path to a PowerShell Module (Scripting Guy) I could find a way to read the information dynamically, so it doesn’t matter where your folder actually is. The fact what version number the module has, what OS you run on, and whether or not you installed it for your user account only or for all users on your computer – allt that has impact on the folder location. So we need to read the right path and then use it in the Add-Type command.

      
        $pnpModule = Get-Module –ListAvailable PnP.Powershell
      
        $base = $pnpModule.ModuleBase
      
        Connect-PnPOnline $url –Interactive 
      
        Add-Type –Path "$base\Framework\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll"
      
        Add-Type –Path "$base\Framework\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll"

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Other notes

The PnP.PowerShell is built on top of.NET Core and it works cross plattform, that’s better.

If your legacy script does not work with the newer PnP.PowerShell, you might need to install the older PnP PowerShell and adjust the module name in the script above accordingly.

The SharePoint SDK is built on top of .NET Framework (as of my understanding) and it can only be installed on a Windows machine.

The SharePoint SDK requires local administrator rights to be installed. The PnP.PowerShell can be installed for a user without beeing an administrator by adding -Scope CurrentUser (to the Install-Module), which makes the work much smoother.

If you have two or more versions of the PnP.PowerShell module installed, you have to adjust the script a little by loading only the latest version of the module:

      
        $pnpModule = Get-Module PnP.PowerShell –ListAvailable | Sort-Object  Version –Descending | Select-Object –First 1

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That was a quick tip on how you can use the types from the original CSOM libraries when you don’t have time to convert a script to a PnP code or if there is some functionality that is not covered in PnP yet (not quite sure if there is something you cannot do with PnP that you can do with CSOM).

The good sides of that approach:

it can be a step towards rewriting a legacy script to a newer PnP.PowerShell
the dlls are up-to-date thanks to an easy way to update the PowerShell Module (Update-Module)
it is cross platform, meaning you can execute your legacy script on a linux or on a Mac as well, good for automation!

sharepoint, PowerShell core, csom, dll, mac, pnp, script, Sharepoint, terminal, tip

Mass remove live photo videos

Leave a comment Posted by Anatoly Mironov on 2020-10-23

While importing images from my iPhone using Image Capture on my mac, I discovered that almost all pictures had corresponding videos. They had the same name, only the file extension was different:

IMG_2829.JPG
IMG_2829.MOV

For archiving I don’t to have live photo videos, that’s why I needed a script for that. I found a good start in an answer on SuperUser.stackexchange.com:

OSX Command line Find Duplicate Filenames with different extensions

I altered it a bit to remove the corresponding .MOV-file (rm):

      
        find . -type f -name "*.JPG" | \
      
          while read -r f;do [ -e "${f%.JPG}.MOV" ] && rm "${f%.JPG}.MOV";done

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Uncategorized bash, image, iphone, mac, osx, video

Trust gulp-connect certificate from Visual Studio Online on Mac OS

Leave a comment Posted by Anatoly Mironov on 2019-11-11

I have read and followed this awesome post:

Getting SPFx working in Visual Studio Online by SPDavid.

I got my fingers and tried that guide out. This worked good, I spent some time, though, googling (binging) around to get rid of the SSL Warnings for the remote “localhost” on my Mac.

I would like to share this simple instruction on how to trust a self signed certificate from gulp-connect on Mac OS. The implication is that the certificate is on the remote linux machine (on the Visual Studio Environment), that you are connected to through the Visual Studio Code extension.

The first step (after you have connected and set up a project) is to download the certificate. It can be found in the following directory:

/workspace/<your-spfx-project>/node_modules/gulp-connect/certs/server.crt

Choose a folder (like Desktop or whatever) to save it to. Then double click server.crt to open it in the Keychain Access.

In the Keychain Access, locate the certificate, it will have the name “gulp-connect”. Open it and enter the “Trust” section. Under “When using this certificate” select “Always Trust”.

Keychain Access – certificate – Trust – Always Trust

After that you might need to restart the browser. But then it should stop warning you.

This certificate is trusted for this account

azure, sharepoint, web azure, certificate, gulp, mac, macos, Visual Studio, visual studio code, vscode, vso

Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac

Leave a comment Posted by Anatoly Mironov on 2015-12-13

I’ve got a Mac and one of my first questions was: How can I write in Chuvash on my Mac, obviously 🙂 In this post I am going to tell how I created Chuvash Keyboard Layout. The solution and installation instructions are on Github:

Chuvash Keyboard Layout for Mac

cv-kbd-mac-000

What the heck is Chuvash?

For those who don’t know yet: Chuvash are people who live in Chuvash Republic in Russian Federation, and abroad, as me. We are 1.5 million. Chuvash is also a language, an official language of the Republic, a minority language, that is completely different from the second official language Russian. Chuvash uses Cyrillic letters, all 33 Russian letters plus 4 additional letters: A breve (Ӑ), E breve (Ӗ), C cedilla (Ҫ) and U with double acute (Ӳ).

Keyboard Layout

There is no official Chuvash keyboard layout. What we have is a de facto standard – a very humble layout. It is “humble” because it does not dare to put Chuvash letters on the buttons directly, they are accessible through modifiers: AltGr in Windows and Linux, Option on a Mac. To get A breve you press AltGr and A in the same time. That is not a good input method for Chuvash where additional letters with diacritics (breve, double acute and cedilla) are more common than some Russian letters. In fact, many Russian letters are just part of the Chuvash alphabet because the loan words are just imported in the original spelling.

The reason why this humble keyboard layout was introduced and became a de facto standard was a will to provide a fully functional Russian keyboard layout with a bonus – being able to write in Chuvash, although a hard way. It is hard to write, but it is very simple to have (you don’t need to switch input sources), it is easy to explain: want a diacritic, just press AltGr and the corresponding plain letter. I created the same layout for Mac, too. In future a better, more Chuvash, keyboard layout must be designed and agreed upon.

Keyboard Layouts on Mac

AFAIK, there is no keyboard layout (“input source”) for any minority language in Russia. On the other hand the process of creating and installing a custom keyboard layout is easiest on a Mac. I followed the steps described on Salvatore Testa’s blog: I installed Ukulele and created a new keyboard layout based on Russian PC. That bundle that is saved from Ukulele needs to be copied to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ folder. Then (presumably after a computer restart), Chuvash can be added as an input source. Custom keyboard layouts are just files (bundles) in a user’s home folder. No need for Administrator rights (as in Windows for installing a custom keyboard layout as an exe file), no sudo access to X11 folder (as in Linux).

What I would like to wish is the presence of Chuvash and other minority languages’ keyboard layouts directly Out-of-the-Box on Mac OS, iOS, Android and Windows. Linux is the only OS family that natively supports Chuvash keyboard layout.

Other minority languages

I am just curious: what languages have already had custom keyboard layouts ready for install. I found those ones:

Some words in Chuvash and Russian

I want this text to be searchable and findable, so here come summary of this blog post in Chuvash and Russian.

Макинтош валли чӑваш сарӑмӗ

Чӑваш сарӑмӗ Линукс, Виндовс, татат Андроид оператив системисенче пуррине халӑх пӗлет-ҫкӗ. Паян эпӗ Маккинтош (Mac OS) валли чӑваш сарӑмне турӑм. Вӑл виндовсри тата линуксри пекех, мӑйракаллисене ҫырас тесен Option (Alt) пускӑчне пусса мӑйракасӑррине пӗрле пусмалла. Option + А – Ӑ пулать. Ку ҫӗнни мар. Сарӑмӗ тата мӗнле лартмалли ку вырӑнта тупӑнать (хальлӗх акӑлчанла, анчах вӗҫ ӑнлантарнине ӳкерчӗклентертӗм).

Чувашская раскладка на Макинтош

Теперь есть чувашская раскладка для Mac OS, она такая же как и на Виндовс и Линукс. Чтобы написать Ӑ нужно нажать на Option (Alt) и на букву А. Раскладку и инструкцию по установке можно найти на этой странице (инструкция на английском пока, но все шаги проиллюстрированы картинками).

Working with Ukulele

I won’t go into details about how to work with Ukulele. But I was very surprised how easy it was to update the keyboard layout.

cv-kbd-mac-006

And more surprised I became when I saw that Chuvash was present in the list of available languages. cv-kbd-mac-007

Just to compare, Chuvash exists as a language in many systems in the Open Source world and close to it: Linux, Firefox, Wikipedia… For Microsoft Chuvash does not exist. No LCID, no locale, no way of referencing cv and cv-RU. There is one exception – Skype, but it was added before Skype was bought by Microsoft. I really hope it can be changed in future.

cv-kbd-mac-008

The last step was to rename to Chuvash – PC and generate an ID within the range for Cyrillic keyboards.

Microsoft again (update 2015-12-14)

After I installed my Chuvash keyboard layout and I was glad, suddenly I could not open Word, it just crashed. I didn’t realize that it was due my custom keyboard layout. How painful, that Microsoft products crash on a custom keyboard layout. Sigh.

Chuvash Latin Script (update 2016-02-06)

I found that ABC Extended Keyboard Layout on Mac lets me write in Chuvash Latin Script using following dead keys:

Option b = Breve (ă, ĕ and maybe ĭ)
Option u = Diaeresis (ü)
Option c = Cedilla (ş)
Option v = Caron (š)

Other turkic languages

ı: Option+w and then i
ə: Shift+Option+: and then a

Chuvash, Uncategorized Chuvash, kbd, keyboard, keyboard layout, mac, osx, ukulele

Trying out Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu

Leave a comment Posted by Anatoly Mironov on 2015-10-21

I am very curious about the new .NET Core, ASP.NET 5, EF 7 and Visual Studio Code for Linux, Mac and Windows. I have tried it out on an Ubuntu 15.04 machine. The installation and configuration required a few steps, so it is not an usual “Next-next-next”-installation. But, hey, it is just a beta, a preview so far, and first of all: It worked. I am sharing a couple of screenshots and the commands I ran in the terminal, mixed with comments and links:

#install latest node and npm
#https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g yo
sudo npm install -g generator-aspnet
# download VS Code and make a link
# make a folder
mkdir workspace/tryvs
cd workspace/tryvs
# create "src/global.json" file:
# http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/tutorials/your-first-mac-aspnet.html
{
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-beta7"
  }
}
nano src/global.json
# start VS Code 
# create 
# install omnisharp:
# http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/getting-started/installing-on-linux.html#installing-on-debian-ubuntu-and-derivatives
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/dev/dnvminstall.sh | DNX_BRANCH=dev sh && source ~/.dnx/dnvm/dnvm.sh
dnvm
#install dnx
sudo apt-get install -y libunwind8 gettext libssl-dev libcurl3-dev zlib1g libicu-dev
dnvm upgrade -r coreclr
cd EmptyApplication
dnu restore

#install libuv
#http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/getting-started/installing-on-linux.html#using-docker
sudo apt-get install make automake libtool curl
curl -sSL https://github.com/libuv/libuv/archive/v1.4.2.tar.gz | sudo tar zxfv - -C /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src/libuv-1.4.2
sudo sh autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/libuv-1.4.2 && cd ~/
sudo ldconfig

#build, I got an error here
dnu build

#start the web server
dnx web

programming .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, codeplex, EF, linux, mac, VS Code, yeoman

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