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PowerShell Automation for Smart SharePoint List Migration Migrating data between SharePoint environments is one of those tasks that looks simple on paper—but in practice, it’s easy to get tangled in duplicates, mismatched fields, or incomplete moves. With many organizations moving from on-premises SharePoint Server to SharePoint Online , automation becomes key to a smooth transition. This guide walks through a PowerShell script that not only moves list items from an on-premises SharePoint list to the cloud but also checks for duplicates before copying. Let’s break it down. Why Automate the Migration? Traditional migrations often copy everything from the source list to the destination list—whether or not those items already exist in the target. The result? Duplicates, clutter, and a messy data clean-up later. This script was designed to solve that. It brings intelligence into the migration process by checking for duplicates first, then deciding whether to move or...

Recently I was doing some testing with a background PowerShell and encountered a weird error. “Identity client runtime library (IDCRL) did not get a response from the login server”. The error that you might encounter while working with PowerShell. This error is very misleading when it comes to identifying what could go wrong. After doing quite a good amount of research below are the probable causes for the error. Invalid Credentials MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) Manage security defaults. Solutions Invalid Credentials Check if your credentials are wrong. Especially if you are using variables. MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) Check if MFA is enabled on the account which you are using. These only affect you badly if you are developing PowerShell for a background Job. Go to Microsoft 365 admin center Users -> Active users -> Select the user -> Manage multifactor authentication -> Select the user -> Disable multi-factor authentication. M...

T his week we would be looking into our first web UI flow demo on how to create UI flows using Power Automate Desktop. Just in case if you are not aware about UI Flows/ Power automate desktop flows. Please refer my previous blogs. Introduction to UI Flows UI Flow Triggers Creating first UI Flow To create a web UI flow you will have to download Power Automate addin for the browser you are using. Note: Supported browsers Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer. Today we will create UI flow for web, Our case study today will be simple. We will launch browser and record actions that we perform. Open Power automate desktop app. Click on New Flow First action to be dragged will be Launch Chrome.       Click on Save. Not click on web recorder from top left corner and click on web recorder.   You should now see a popup, select Chrome from there. Open the URL you added in Launch chrome action. Click on start recording button from recorder screen. Perform actions y...