PowerShell – SharePoint – Move folders between site collections, subsites, and libraries
There are several ways to move data between libraries in SharePoint. One of them is using UI. While this method has become better over the years, it's still slow and buggy at times. Just recently I had an issue where SharePoint UI would not move more than 20 folders, it would time out. Another method is using PowerShell to do such a task. Out there you can definitely find scripts that would move data; however, you need to provide all prerequisite information and do it correctly. A typo or a library display name vs different internal name would leave you scratching your head for quite some time. If you do use subsites in your site collections, then things become progressively more complicated. To address most of the struggle I decided to create a script that will do it all. The goal was to automate everything where an admin would only…