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get site, web and list information with PowerShell for SharePoint Online

We often get the question to list the site structure for SharePoint on premise and this can be done quite easily with get-spsite, get-spweb and get-splist but only get-sposite is available for SharePoint Online. This script will do the following: – get all root sites in SharePoint Online and show its template – get all […]

We often get the question to list the site structure for SharePoint on premise and this can be done quite easily with get-spsite, get-spweb and get-splist but only get-sposite is available for SharePoint Online. This script will do the following:

– get all root sites in SharePoint Online and show its template

– get all webs and subwebs from root sites in SharePoint Online and show Its template

– get all lists from sites and webs in SharePoint Online and show its item count

– collect this information and store this in an HTML table

The script will generate the following output:

You will need to install the SharePoint Online Management Shell from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588 and all of its pre-requisites. The below script needs to be copied to a .ps1 file on the workstation you are planning to run this script. It will create a logfile on the same location.

function connectToO365{

# Let the user fill in their admin url, username and password

$adminUrl = Read-Host "Enter the Admin URL of 0365 (eg. https://<Tenant Name>-admin.sharepoint.com)"

$userName = Read-Host "Enter the username of 0365 (eg. admin@<tenantName>.onmicrosoft.com)"

$password = Read-Host "Please enter the password for $($userName)" -AsSecureString

# set credentials

$credentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $userName, $password

$SPOCredentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($userName, $password)

#connect to to Office 365

try{

Connect-SPOService -Url $adminUrl -Credential $credentials

write-host "Info: Connected succesfully to Office 365" -foregroundcolor green

}

catch{

write-host "Error: Could not connect to Office 365" -foregroundcolor red

Break connectToO365

}

#create HTML file

$filePath = create-outputfile

#start getting site collections

get-siteCollections

add-content -value "

</body>

</html>

" -path $filePath

}

function create-outputfile(){

#Create unique string from the date

$date = get-date -format dMMyyyyhhmm

#set the full path

$filePath = "$($PSScriptRoot)\Output$($date).html"

#test path

if (!(Test-Path -path $filePath)){

#create file

New-Item $filePath -type file | out-null

#print info

write-host “File created: $($filePath)” -foregroundcolor green

#add start HTML information to file

add-content -value "

<html>

<body>

<h1>Sites information Office 365</h1>

<table border='1' style='font-family: Calibri, sans-serif'>

<tr>

<th style='background-color:blue; color:white'>URL</th>

<th style='background-color:blue; color:white'>Type</th>

<th style='background-color:blue; color:white'>Template</th>

<th style='background-color:blue; color:white'>Item Count</th>

</tr>

" -path $filePath

}

else{

#break so there won't be duplicate files

write-host "Output file already exists, wait 1 minute" -foregroundcolor yellow

Break create-outputfile

}

return $filePath

}

function get-siteCollections{

#Get all site collections

$siteCollections = Get-SPOSite

#loop through all site collections

foreach ($siteCollection in $siteCollections)

{

#set variable for a tab in the table

$pixelsweb = 0

$pixelslist = 0

#add info to HTML document

add-content -value "<tr style='background-color:cyan'><td>$($siteCollection.url)</td><td>TopSite</td><td>$($sitecollection.template)</td><td></td></tr>" -path $filePath

write-host "Info: Found $($siteCollection.url)" -foregroundcolor green

#search for webs

$AllWebs = Get-SPOWebs($siteCollection.url)

}

}

function Get-SPOWebs($url){

#fill metadata information to the client context variable

$context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($url)

$context.Credentials = $SPOcredentials

$web = $context.Web

$context.Load($web)

$context.Load($web.Webs)

$context.load($web.lists)

try{

$context.ExecuteQuery()

#loop through all lists in the web

foreach($list in $web.lists){

add-content -value "<tr><td><span style='margin-left:$($pixelslist)px'>$($list.title)</td><td>List/library</td><td></td><td>$($list.itemcount)</td></tr>" -path $filePath

}

#loop through all webs in the web and start again to find more subwebs

$pixelsweb = $pixelsweb + 15

$pixelslist = $pixelslist + 15

foreach($web in $web.Webs) {

add-content -value "<tr style='background-color:yellow'><td><span style='margin-left:$($pixelsweb)px'>$($web.url)</td><td>Web</td><td>$($web.webtemplate)</td><td></td></tr>" -path $filePath

write-host "Info: Found $($web.url)" -foregroundcolor green

Get-SPOWebs($web.url)

}

}

catch{

write-host "Could not find web" -foregroundcolor red

}

}

connectToO365

Manual

This script has been run on a workstation with Windows 8.1. First run the SharePoint Online Management Shell as administrator

.