Not all data copies across between SharePoint Sites using PowerShell

Question

Hello SharePoint Community,

MS have referred me to this site for help.

I have recently been getting to grips with PowerShell as a means to copy data (Pages, Files and Themes) between SharePoint Sites. The Home page on the source site has 6 Call to Actions, plus a banner and news post. All but one of the call to actions, the Theme and banner copied across to the new site (created initially as a blank). I place 2 screenshots below of the source and destination home pages.

The source home page looks like this:

The destination home page is this...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/storage/attachments/236485-sharepoint-destination.jpg

Any further guidance would be greatly appreciated in customising the PowerShell code to reproduce the data and look and feel to the destination site.

A link to the full thread where you can see the code I used is below.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/988546/not-all-data-copies-across-between-sharepoint-site.html

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @Anonymous ,

According to my research and testing, you can use the following PowerShell code to copy sites page :

try {    
    $srcUrl = "https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxx"    
    $destUrl =  "https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/ComTest"    
    $pageName =  "test-site.aspx"    
      
    Connect-PnPOnline -Url $srcUrl -Credentials $cred  
    $tempFile = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName();    
    Export-PnPClientSidePage -Force -Identity $pageName -Out $tempFile    
    Connect-PnPOnline -Url $destUrl -Credentials $cred    
    Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path $tempFile    
    Write -Host "ModernPage is successfully copied."    
    sleep 10    
} catch {    
    Write -Host -ForegroundColor Red 'Error ', ':'    
    $Error[0].ToString();    
    sleep 10    
}    

My test result:

More information for reference:
Copy Sites Page From One Site To Another Using PNP PowerShell
How to Copy a Site in SharePoint Online using PowerShell?

Hope it can help you. Thanks for your understanding.

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Answer 2

Thanks for the code sample. I adjusted it to my site requirements, but it ran into an unexpected token error. Any ideas why?

PS C:\Users\xxxx> {
$srcUrl = "https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/TestCommunicationsSite"
$destUrl = "https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/ComTest"
$pageName = "test-site.aspx"

 Connect-PnPOnline -Url $srcUrl -Credentials $cred  
 $tempFile = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName();    
 Export-PnPClientSidePage -Force -Identity $pageName -Out $tempFile    
 Connect-PnPOnline -Url $destUrl -Credentials $cred    
 Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path $tempFile    
 Write -Host "ModernPage is successfully copied."    
 sleep 10    

} catch {
Write -Host -ForegroundColor Red 'Error ', ':'
$Error[0].ToString();
sleep 10
}

At line:13 char:4

• } catch {
• ~~~~~
  Unexpected token 'catch' in expression or statement.
• CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

PS C:\Users\xxxx>

Answer 3

Hi @Tong Zhang_MSFT ,

I ran your code again with "Try" (not sure what that does) and at least the commands attempted to connect me. However, it now wants me to use 2FA because of my location. I have looked for workarounds and found in one example I'm supposed to download a special PowerShell Module from the Exchange Online. It looks quite a tortuous route just to get connected. Is this the way to proceed or are you aware of a more direct approach?

Thanks
David