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Create and run a powershell script, create a powershell script.

On Windows 10, a user can create the PowerShell script using any text editor or the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), which is already available on every system.

Create a Script using Notepad

The following steps are used to create a PowerShell script:

1) Open Start.

2) Search for text editor such as Notepad, and click on the Notepad app.

3) Now, a new window of notepad will open. Type the script on the text file which you want to execute. For example:

4) Click on the ‘ File ‘ menu in the menu bar.

5) Select the option ‘ save as ‘ from the drop-down list.

6) Type the name of a file in the box and click on the ‘ save ‘ button. For example: fs.ps1

7) At last, click on a save button.

Create a Script using the Integrated Scripting Environment

The following steps are used to create a PowerShell script using the ISE tool:

2) Search for the Windows PowerShell ISE , right-click on the ‘ Windows PowerShell ISE ‘ and select the ‘ Run as Administrator ‘ option from the drop-down list.

3) Click on the File in the menu bar.

4) Select the ‘New’ option to create a new empty file.

5) Write a script which you want to execute. For example:

6) Click on the ‘ File ‘ menu in the menu bar.

7) Select the option ‘ save as ‘ from the drop-down list.

8) Type the name of a script. And, then click on the Save button.

Enable PowerShell Scripts

When we start the PowerShell in a computer system, the default execution policy does not allow us to execute or run the scripts.

There are four different types of execution policy in PowerShell:

• Restricted: In this policy, no script is executed.
• RemoteSigned: In this policy, only those scripts are run, which are downloaded from the Internet, and these must be signed by the trusted publisher.
• Unrestricted: All the scripts of Windows PowerShell are run.
• AllSigned: Only those scripts can be run, which are signed by a trusted publisher.

Because the default execution policy of Windows PowerShell is restricted, so we cannot run any script until we change it. First, we set the execution policy to Unrestricted to execute the scripts by using the following command.

Run a PowerShell script

To execute the PowerShell script from the command line, follow the given steps:

1) Type the Windows PowerShell in the start menu and then open it by clicking on a result.

2) Now, execute the script by typing the full path to the script such as ( C:/desktop/fs.ps1 ), or if it is in current directory, type the file name followed by a backslash.

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The creation of PowerPoint files in particular can cost you a lot of nerves. Especially frequently recurring tasks like status or quarterly reports can be automated with Powershell. It is important to create a good PowerPoint master template, which can then be filled using Powershell. It makes sense to run through the document twice, inserting text modules in the first run and then adapting them to the current situation in the second run.

Creating a Powerpoint Presentation

The script will create a Powerpoint presentation which can be used as an container.

Create a Powerpoint slide

The following snippet will create a Powerpoint Slide within a presentation.

Create a shape within a presentation

Shapes can be created using the following snippet:

Create an image within a presentation

Images can be created using the following snippet:

Create a table within a presentation

Tables can be created using the following snippet:

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A couple days ago I would have been happy to have an automated way of creating Powerpoint slides (Powerpoint was not my choice anyway) now I found one with the help of the Scripting Guy and StackOverflow . The following code just opens Powerpoint and adds a couple slides, each with a different layout. I am not sure (resp. too lazy to check) how many layouts there are but it must be more than 30.

Clear-Host Add-type -AssemblyName office $application = New-Object -ComObject powerpoint.application $application.visible = [Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState]::msoTrue $presentation = $application.Presentations.add() $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 1) # title slide $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 2) # slide title and text $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 3) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 4) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 5) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 6) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 7) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 8) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 9) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 10) $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 11) # just slide title $slide.Shapes.title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "This is the slide title" $slide = $Presentation.Slides.Add($presentation.Slides.Count + 1, 12) # blank

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Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Add a New Slide to an Existing Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation?

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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been enjoying reading your Microsoft PowerPoint articles this week. I am curious however; can you use Windows PowerShell to add a slide to an existing presentation? I have searched on the Internet and can’t find an example of doing that. Is it not possible, or just too tough?

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I am listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan on my Zune HD, and sipping a cup of Lady Grey tea this afternoon. Lady Grey tea is similar to Earl Grey tea, but it is more subtle. I like to sip it after I have my afternoon snack. I have been enjoying reading through the Microsoft PowerPoint object model documentation on MSDN this week. I have been surprised at how rich it actually is. It is also beginning to make sense to me after having spent the week poring over the documentation.

YF, I decided to write a script to add a slide to an existing Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. In fact, it will add the same slide to all of the Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in a specified folder. This could be rather useful in certain circumstances. For example, when I gave my presentation on Windows PowerShell at Tech · Ed 2009 in Los Angeles last year, there were several slides that each presentation was required to incorporate. Rather than relying on the speakers to add these slides, the slides could have been added via script.

The complete AddPowerPointSlide.ps1 script is shown here.

AddPowerPointSlide.ps1

Add-type -AssemblyName office $Application = New-Object -ComObject powerpoint.application $application.visible = [Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState]::msoTrue $slideType = “microsoft.office.interop.powerpoint.ppSlideLayout” -as [type] $path = “c:fso” Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Include “*.ppt”, “*.pptx” -Recurse | ForEach-Object {   $presentation = $application.Presentations.open($_.fullname)   $customLayout = $presentation.Slides.item(2).customLayout   $slide = $presentation.slides.addSlide(2,$customLayout)   $slide.layout = $slideType::ppLayoutTitleOnly   $slide.Shapes.title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = “New Title Text”   $presentation.Save()   $presentation.Close()   “Modifying $_.FullName” }

$application.quit() $application = $null [gc]::collect() [gc]::WaitForPendingFinalizers()

The first thing that must be done is to add the office assembly, create the PowerPoint application object, and make the application visible. This was discussed in Monday’s Hey, Scripting Guy! post . The code that does this is shown here:

Add-type -AssemblyName office $Application = New-Object -ComObject powerpoint.application $application.visible = [Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState]::msoTrue

To configure the slide layout, you will need to use an instance of the ppSlideLayout enumeration. The  PpSlideLayout enumeration is documented on MSDN, and contains all of the different slide layout styles that are available from within Microsoft PowerPoint. One thing to keep in mind is that all layout styles will not be available for all slide themes and templates. The code that creates the slide layout enumeration is shown here:

$slideType = “microsoft.office.interop.powerpoint.ppSlideLayout” -as [type]

After you have created the ppSlideLayout enumeration, you will want to retrieve the Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that you wish to modify. In this script, all of the Microsoft PowerPoint files in the c:fso folder will be modified. The Get-ChildItem cmdlet is used to retrieve files that have either a .ppt or a .pptx extension. The fileinfo objects are then passed via the pipeline to the ForEach-Object cmdlet:

$path = “c:fso” Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Include “*.ppt”, “*.pptx” -Recurse | ForEach-Object {

Next the fullname of the fileinfo object contains the complete path to the file. This is passed to the Open method of the Presentations collection object that is retrieved from the Presentations property of the Application object . The open method returns a Presentation object . Using the Slides property from the presentation object retrieves a Slides collection object . The item method from the collections object is used to obtain a specific Slide object . In this example, we retrieve the second slide in the deck. Because the slides begin numbering at 1, there is no need to add an offset number. The CustomLayout property from the slide object returns a CustomLayout object that is stored in the $customLayout variable. This section of the script is shown here:

  $presentation = $application.Presentations.open($_.fullname)   $customLayout = $presentation.Slides.item(2).customLayout

The current Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is shown in the following image.

Retrieving the customLayout object was necessary because the AddSlide method from the slides collection object requires two parameters. The first is the index number that tells the script where to add the new slide, and the second is a customLayout object. The addSlide method returns a slide object that is stored in the $slide variable, as shown here:

  $slide = $presentation.slides.addSlide(2,$customLayout)

The Layout property of the slide object is used to modify the layout of the newly added slide. This is where the PpSlideLayout enumeration stored in the $slideType variable comes into play. To modify the layout of the new slide to a title-only slide, use the PpLayoutTitleOnly static property as shown here:

  $slide.layout = $slideType::ppLayoutTitleOnly

It is time to add some text to the title block of the slide. To do this, you need to retrieve the Shapes collection object from the Shapes property of the slide object. The shapes collection object has a Title property that returns a  Shape object . The TextFrame property returns a TextFrame object that contains alignment and anchoring properties for the shape. The textFrame object represents the text frame in a shape object. It contains the text, as well as the properties and methods that control alignment of the text frame. The TextRange property of the TextFrame object returns a TextRange object that represents the text in the TextFrame . Finally, we get to the text property of the TextRange object. The TextRange object has a number of very interesting methods and properties that allow you to manipulate the text in the TextFrame . Here we simply assign a string to the Text property of the TextRange object. The code that adds the title to the slide is shown here:

  $slide.Shapes.title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = “New Title Text”

After you have added the new slide, set the format of the slide, and added a title to it, it is time to save the modified presentation. To do this, you use the save method from the presentation object:

  $presentation.Save()

After the presentation has been saved, it is time to close it by calling the close method from the presentation object. A string is displayed that indicates the name of the presentation that was modified:

  $presentation.Close()   “Modifying $_.FullName” }

To clean up after the script, the quit method from the application object is called. The application variable is set to null and garbage collection is called:

After the script has run, the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with the new slide is displayed, as shown in the following image.

YF, that is all there is to using Windows PowerShell to add a new slide to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Microsoft PowerPoint Week will continue tomorrow.

If you want to know exactly what we will be looking at tomorrow, follow us on Twitter or Facebook . If you have any questions, send e-mail to us at [email protected] or post your questions on the Official Scripting Guys Forum . See you tomorrow. Until then, peace.

Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, Scripting Guys

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Please may I get some assistance with the below! I have spent many an hour trying to figure out why this keeps on popping up, but no joy. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Could you please provide the command you're using. Please remove/mask your SharePoint link or any other important information like PIIs.

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I hope you're doing great. Kindly provide the script you're trying to execute.

Please feel free to provide update. Thanks in advance.

Apologies for not getting back to you sooner, please see attached the website I used to get the code. I have put my website details in where it gives there one and so on and so on.

https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2020/11/find-all-shared-links-in-sharepoint-online-document-library.html

Do you know if this tip will work with OneDrive Business (and maybe consumer)? I often see SharePoint and OneDrive (Business) mentioned in the same sentence.

HI Rohnski,

Not sure what you mean by this?

Many thanks,

The link you provided specifies a PowerShell command to get information about files saved in SharePoint. I am curious whether the same command would work in OneDrive Business, and possibly also in OneDrive Consumer.

I asked because much of the MS documentation I sees mentions SharePoint and OneDrive Business together, because as I understand it they use the same underlying storage technology. OneDrive Consumer on the other hand uses some other storage protocol, which may or may not work with the PowerShell command.

I don't have access to OneDrive Business or SharePoint so I can't test the command.

Thank you for the information.

May I know how are you Authenticating to PowerShell? Is your MFA enabled?

Kindly ensure PnP module is up to date.

Based from the article you provided, it is for Generating Shared Links in SharePoint Document Library, but the description is PowerShell command for PowerPoint.

You may also generate Audit reports in your Compliance Center https://compliance.microsoft.com/auditlogsearch  > Activities is Created a company shareable link, Shared file, folder, or site, Used a company shareable link.

May I know what exactly the requirement so that I can check a PowerShell command suitable to your requirement.

Thank you for your kind understanding.

Hi Rohnski,

The command is for OneDrive for business and SharePoint Online and it is to get all the shared links and not get all the files.

The command is for OneDrive for business and SharePoint Online and it is to get all the shared links and not get all the files. Sincerely, Zee | Microsoft Community Moderator

Thanks Zee. Yes, i understood it was reporting only on files with share links.

Thank you for your replies.

Sorry again, I am not sure what you mean by authenticating to PowerShell you mean am I right clicking on PowerShell and running it as administartor? And yes MFA is enabled. And the PnP module is up to date.

I am trying to find a trail of who has shared what link and to who. Some important HR and financial documents on SharePoint have been shared accidentally to the wrong person and I would just like to find a trail of who has done that and who has received the files.

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How to Open PowerPoint File Using PowerShell

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Introduction #

Having ability to open PowerPoint file such as ppt or pptx from PowerShell is extremely useful. It can save your time and energy by allowing you to automate opening the file so we can avoid repetitive tasks.

In this article, we’ll walk through how to use PowerShell commands to open PowerPoint file.

Using Start-Process #

Once you are in PowerShell environment, you can type in Start-Process followed by the path of your PowerPoint file.

In this case, we are going to open the file that is physically located at C:\Presentation\Presentation1.pptx , you would type following script into PowerShell.

The Start-Process command will launch the file immediately.

Using Invoke-Item #

Another useful command is Invoke-Item which can also be used to open specific file. To use this command, simply enter it followed by the path of the file.

This will automatically launch the file.

Using Call Operator (&) #

Call Operator & can also be used to open the file. The pattern is the same with previous example where the operator must be followed by the path of PowerPoint file.

Conclusion #

Using Windows PowerShell commands makes opening PowerPoint file incredibly easy and efficient, just remember we can use Start-Process , Invoke-Item or Call Operator & command to open the application.

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New-SPPower Point Conversion Service Application

Creates a PowerPoint Conversion Service application.

Description

Use the New-SPPowerPointConversionServiceApplication cmdlet to create a new instance of a PowerPoint Conversion Service application by using the Name parameter.

After the PowerPoint Conversion Service application is created, you can convert PowerPoint presentations to various formats.

For permissions and the most current information about Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Products, see the online documentation at SharePoint Server Cmdlets .

This example creates a new instance of the PowerPoint Conversion Service application named PowerPoint Conversion Service Application and assigns it to the default application pool.

-ApplicationPool

Assigns an application pool that Internet Information Services (IIS) will use for this service application.

-AssignmentCollection

Manages objects for the purpose of proper disposal. Use of objects, such as SPWeb or SPSite, can use large amounts of memory and use of these objects in Windows PowerShell scripts requires proper memory management. Using the SPAssignment object, you can assign objects to a variable and dispose of the objects after they are needed to free up memory. When SPWeb, SPSite, or SPSiteAdministration objects are used, the objects are automatically disposed of if an assignment collection or the Global parameter is not used.

When the Global parameter is used, all objects are contained in the global store. If objects are not immediately used, or disposed of by using the Stop-SPAssignment command, an out-of-memory scenario can occur.

Prompts you for confirmation before executing the command. For more information, type the following command: get-help about_commonparameters

Specifies the name of the PowerPoint Conversion Service application.

Displays a message that describes the effect of the command instead of executing the command. For more information, type the following command: get-help about_commonparameters

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• Set-SPPowerPointConversionServiceApplication

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