How to Delete All Items From Sharepoint List Using Powershell
When we do a lot of SharePoint consultant work. We need to clear out what we worked on and try it again. Especially if we are doing any kind of SharePoint migration. In this example, we use a Powershell command to delete all the items from SharePoint list programmatically. No manual work is required. Give it a try
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[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")
# "Enter the site URL here"
$SITEURL = "https://test.org/Blogs/"
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite ( $SITEURL )
$web = $site.OpenWeb()
"Web is : " + $web.Title
# Enter name of the List below
$oList = $web.Lists["Posts"];
"List is :" + $oList.Title + " with item count " + $oList.ItemCount
$collListItems = $oList.Items;
$count = $collListItems.Count – 1
for($intIndex = $count; $intIndex -gt -1; $intIndex--)
{
"Deleting : " + $intIndex
$collListItems.Delete($intIndex);
}
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Save this code as a .ps1 file and run it in SharePoint Powershell and you are go to go.
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