SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

The versions property is not available from client object model on the ListItem class as with server object model.  I landed on the article SharePoint – Get List Item Versions Using Client Object Model that describes how to get a list item versions property using the method GetFileByServerRelativeUrl by passing the FileUrl property. The trick is to build the list item url as “sites/test/Lists/MyList/30_.000” where 30 is the item id for which the version history needs to be retrieved. Using that information I created a PowerShell to loop through all lists in the site collection and sub sites to delete all version history from lists.

The script below targets a SharePoint tenant environment.

Please note that I have used script Load-CSOMProperties.ps1 from blog post Loading Specific Values Using Lambda Expressions and the SharePoint CSOM API with Windows PowerShell to help with querying object properties like Lambda expressions in C#. The  lines below demonstrate use of the  Load-CSOMProperties.ps1  file which I copied in the same directory where the script DeleteAllVersionsFromListItems.ps1 is.

• Load the  Load-CSOMProperties.ps1 file

         Set-Location $PSScriptRoot

        $pLoadCSOMProperties=(get-location).ToString()+”\Load-CSOMProperties.ps1″
       . $pLoadCSOMProperties

•  Retrieve ServerRelativeURL property from file object

 Load-CSOMProperties -object $file -propertyNames @(“ServerRelativeUrl”); 

You can download the script from technet.

http://bit.ly/2oztKnR

from reshmeeauckloo http://bit.ly/2ozAHFb

Reshmee Auckloo – Reshmee is a certified Microsoft professional and has been involved in delivering solutions across a wide variety of industry sectors in a range of assignments from SSRS to Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server development, CRM Dynamics and .Net including business requirements gathering and software quality assurance. This article has been cross posted from reshmeeauckloo.wordpress.com (original article)