Microsoft 365 – PowerShell script to convert news posts to site page

Hi All,

Greetings.

Today sharing small but important PowerShell script.

PowerShell script – How to convert the news post to site page.

Background:

One of our user wanted to create the content page, but it was mistakenly posted as a news post. Since a news post behaves differently from a content page, the user wants to convert the news post into a content page (site page) instead of deleting it and creating a new page.

So, we came up with the PnP PowerShell approach.

This is two step process.

Type of page / post is identified by its “PromotedState” property. So we need to update the “PromotedState” property of the post.

Detailed Steps:

• Connect to the tenant
• Update the “PromotedState” property of the news post
  • “PromotesState” – 2 is for news post
  • “PromotesState” – 0 is for site page / content page
• We need to know the ID of the news post which we need to convert to site page

Connect to the tenant

• Here I’ll use Connect-PnPOnline PnP PowerShell CMDLET to connect to my tenant
• I am using
  • Client / App ID
  • Certificate

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com/sites/knowledgejunctiondemo
-ClientId $clientid                          #my client id
-CertificatePath $certificatepath            #path of my certificate from my local drive 
-CertificatePassword $certificatepassword    #password of my certificate
-Tenant 'knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com' #tenant
-WarningAction Ignore

Update the “PromotedState” property of the news post

Once we connected successfully to the tenant, we will convert the news post.

We will set “PromotedState” property to 0 (Zero) as

Set-PnPListItem -List "SitePages" -Identity 41 -Values @{"PromotedState"="0"}

As we will execute the above CMDLET, we will see the updated “PromotedState” property.

PS C:\> $certificatepassword = (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $certificatepassword -Force)

PS C:\> Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://knowledgejunction1.sharepoint.com 
                          -ClientId $clientid 
                          -CertificatePath $certificatepath 
                          -CertificatePassword $certificatepassword 
                          -Tenant 'knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com' 
                          -WarningAction Ignore

PS C:\> Set-PnPListItem -List "SitePages" -Identity 41 
                        -Values @{"PromotedState"="0"}

Id    Title                                              GUID
--    -----                                              ----
41    Demo - Converting News Post to Content Page        b58220ff-94b4-4496-ba8d-b47d5384590e

Thank You 🙂 Have a Great time ahead 🙂