Wednesday 13 June 2018

Forcing Synchronization of Display Name and Email from Active Directory without User Profile Synchronization - PowerShell Script

Just made this script to Synchronize Display Name and Email for all users in a root web if they have been updated in AD and aren't flowing through to your display name in SharePoint. This may be required if the user profile service is not set up or is failing. This problem is discussed in more detail at https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/User-Information-List-in-8b420e8c

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
#As discussed in https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/User-Information-List-in-8b420e8c 

Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Yellow "-------------------Process Start---------------------------------------------------------------"
Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Yellow "This script will sync the AD display name and email from AD without running a user profile sync"
Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Yellow "As discussed in https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/User-Information-List-in-8b420e8c" 
Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Yellow "-------------------Process Start---------------------------------------------------------------"

$stopWatch = [Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()

$rootWeb = Get-SPWeb "https://demo01.berkeleyit.com/"
ForEach ($user in $rootWeb.AllUsers)
{
    Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Green "Syncing Email and DisplayName with Active Directory... for $user" 
    Set-SPUser -Web $rootWeb -identity $user.UserLogin -SyncFromAD
}

$stopWatch.Stop()

$timeTaken = $stopWatch.Elapsed

Write-Host  -ForegroundColor Yellow "-------------------Process Completed in $timeTaken second(s)------------------"

Wednesday 28 March 2018

TypeScript - Importing jQuery TypeScript Definitions (d.ts) for Visual Studio 2017

TypeScript is building in popularity and JQuery is remains one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. Consequently you will typically want to use them together in the same project at one stage or another.
If you do want to use JQuery within your TypeScript files in Visual Studio 2017, you need a "DefinitelyTyped" definition specifically for jQuery. This will allow Visual Studio to correctly recognise jQuery objects when validating and compiling (or transpiling based on your preferred terminology).


To do this, just download the TypeScript definitions (d.ts) for jQuery through the Nuget Package Manager (npm) UI or with the Nuget package manager console, use the following command:

Install-Package jquery.TypeScript.DefinitelyTyped

Now the typescript compiler will recognise your jQuery calls:


DDK