SharePoint 2016: export a list of all content Targeted to a specific Audience within site

Question

I have a Target Audience (eg: ContosoHRAud) that's used widely within a site. I need to provide a list of webparts and items and etc where ContosoHRAud is being applied. Any leads?
Thanks!
Scott

Answer 1

@sco gordo ,

Loop through all items in all lists in the site, check if column(Target Audiences)value equals ContosoHRAud to find where ContosoHRAud is being applied in all items.

For web parts, iterate through all web parts in all pages in the site,check the web part property "AuthorizationFilter" values are equals ContosoHRAud to find where ContosoHRAud is being applied in all web parts.

More information for your reference:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/retrieve-webparts-from-page-using-csom-with-powershell-for-s/

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Answer 2

if you work with SP2016 on-prem you may use basic PowerShell for that. Here is example of script which lists all web parts and list items with audiences: SharePoint 2010: Programmatically find audience usage.