How do you connect to your SharePoint Office365 tenant with the PowerShell if you are locked behind a proxy? This hint will probably work for all kind of PowerShell scripts, not only for Office PnP. I tried this with the Microsoft SharePoint Online extensions as well and it worked.
So my problem was, the company I was working for, had a proxy which could not be bypassed. The proxy settings have been set by a GPO and the network settings where fine so far. However the proxy used user authentication to access the internet. Now if I want to use the SharePoint Online tools, I must authenticate my PowerShell session at the proxy so the tools can access the internet too.
The trick to get your PowerShell connected is quite simple. You only need to enter the following line:
[System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials
Now you should be able to connect to Office365 SharePoint without problems. If you don't want to enter this line every time you open a new PowerShell, you could add it to your PowerShell profile.
ise $PROFILE
then add this to the profile file:
#Set user default credentials for any webrequest "Setting the users default credentials for WebRequests..." | Write-Host -ForegroundColor White [System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials
Trying to connect to may site collection ( SP2016) but through a proxy(
ReplyDelete$cred = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials
[System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = $cred
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://xxx -UseWebLogin
he problem is no connection was made:
Get-PnPWeb or Get-PnPSite is null
Get-PnPSite : Cannot contact site at the specified URL https://xxx/. Au caractère Ligne:1 : 1 + Get-PnPSite + ~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [Get-PnPSite], ClientRequestException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : EXCEPTION,SharePointPnP.PowerShell.Commands.Site.GetSite
As long as you havn't connected to the site thru Connect-PnPOnline, every other PnP cmdlet will fail and raise an exception.
DeleteThe PowerShell line [System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials will set the context of the user running the PowerShell to be used for any kind of http connection estabished thru System.Net.Webrequest. Possible problems may be the user isn't allowd to login to the proxy, or the proxy does deep packet inspections and SSL termination to block unauthorized traffic.
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