Script for updating URLrewrite-rules

In these days urlrewrite might not be the first choice for using but I had a situationen where i needed to be applied.
This offered an oppertunity to create a script to automate the addition of custom rules sets for a specific file.
And I got to fiddle with xml-manipulation which is also fun.
This script reads an csv for inputaddress and ruleTemplate file
csv – addresses.csv
ruleName,target,destination
tomteland,www.tomteland.se,tomteland

Powershellscript, this script reads web.config from designated place makes a copy to $workingDir where updates are applied to file in $workingDir. This a pretty specific script, for example outboundRules are applied before <precondition>-tagg, but haven’t really experimented what happens if the preconditions aren’t there for example. So better to use as inspiration rather than copy paste. Also rewriteRules will need to be adjusted for your particuliar scenarios. Matching for rules to change are made with replace() towards #rulename#, #destination and #target# cause this was easier for this scenario.

Finding duplicate content types

Got to a chance to build a script for finding content type duplicates in a Site Collection

#Description:Find duplicate content types in sitecollection

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell

$siteURL = "https://test-mysite.mycompany.com"
$site = get-spsite $siteURL
$object = @()

foreach ($newWeb in $site.AllWebs) {
    foreach ($cType in $newWeb.contentTypes) {
        $tempObj = new-object PSObject -Property @{webURL=$newWeb.Url; CTName=$cType.Name; CTid=$cType.Id}
        $object += $tempObj
        }
    }
#sort out duplicates
$duplicates = $object |Group-Object ctid |Where-Object {$_.count -gt 1} |select -ExpandProperty group

write-output "Found $($object.count) content types in $siteURL"
write-output "Total duplicates: $($duplicates.count)"
$duplicates

Urlrewrite and sharepoint 2013

I some trouble recently getting urlrewrite to play along with SP2013 and IIS 8.
HostNamedSiteCollection wasn’t doable for a lot of other reasons.
Scenario: Using urlrewrites to handle vanityurls for site collections in SP2007. When migrating to SP2013 these rules don’t work at all.

Symptoms:

• With outboundrules activated nothing works for webapplication. (Website cannot display the page) 
• Always lands on top site collection, rewrite dont work.

Solution:
A combination of a few fixes

• Install patch kb2749660 to fix outboundrules
• Add registry key ("HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\InetStp\Rewrite\" (Dword) LogRewrittenUrlEnabled=0)
• Deactivate Static Compression on IIS-site
• Add rewrite rule like {HTTP_HOST} matches pattern ^www.labb13.nu(.*)

References:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2749660 - Response is corrupted when you configure an outgoing rule in URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5
http://ruslany.net/2010/05/storing-url-rewrite-mappings-in-a-separate-file/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/danielvl/2010/01/07/registry-values-for-iis-url-rewrite/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14607390/iis-urlrewrite-is-not-working-for-iis-8
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23074.sharepoint-2013-url-rewrite.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2013/11/27/how-to-create-a-url-alias-using-iis-url-rewrite.aspx – example (without sharepoint)
http://johnliu.net/blog/2010/7/23/sharepoint-2010-with-iis-url-rewrite-20.html
https://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-outbound-rules-for-url-rewrite-module
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8d076df4-d93c-47be-80cc-f22dddc1c4c8/how-to-implement-url-rewriting-for-sharepoint?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious – similar problem. http://blog.mastykarz.nl/friendly-urls-sharepoint-site-4-steps-iis7-url-rewrite-module/ - rewrite with sharepoint 2013
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chiranth/archive/2014/06/13/url-rewrite-part-3-outbound-rules-amp-rewrite-maps.aspx - why use outbound rules?
https://support.microsoft.com/sv-se/kb/2818415 - supported assymentrical solutions

A fun script for creating meetings in Outlook.
For the very lazy admin

function createMeeting(
    $Subject = "Test Meeting",
    $body = "Just Testing",
    $location = "Here",
    $start = "1/26/2016 12:00 PM",
    $duration = 60,
    $reminderSet = $true,
    $reminderMinutesBeforeStart = 15
    )
{
$olAppointmentItem = 1
$o = New-Object -comobject outlook.application
$a = $o.CreateItem($olAppointmentItem)
$a.MeetingStatus.olMeeting
$a.Start = $start
$a.Duration = $duration
$a.Subject = $Subject
$a.body = $body
$a.Location = $location
$a.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = $reminderMinutesBeforeStart
$a.reminderSet = $true
$result = $a.Save()
}


$Duration = 60
$Subject = "Test1"
$Body = "testar2"
$Location="Office"
$ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 30
$reminderSet = $true

#This scenario is set of dates with same meeting time
$arrayOfDates =  "2016-01-26", "2016-01-27","2016-01-28"
$hour = 10
$minute = 00
for ($i=0;$i -le ($ArrayOfDates.count-1);$i++) {
$dateTime = get-date $ArrayOfDates[$i] -Hour $hour -Minute $minute
$dateTime
createMeeting -Subject $Subject -body $Body -location $Location -reminderSet $reminderSet -reminderMinutesBeforeStart $ReminderMinutesBeforeStart -duration $Duration -start $dateTime
}

References:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/077733c5-6e39-489e-908a-d3098c512a71/need-to-create-meeting-request-using-powershell-with-outlook-2010-2013?forum=winserverpowershell