Share via

PowerShell: Open SharePoint Web Applications in Internet Explorer tabs

  • Article

PowerShell: Open SharePoint Web Applications in Internet Explorer tabs.

Summary

This TechNet Wiki is based on the TechNet forum post.

Requirement

Open SharePoint Web Application in IE tabs. OP tried and ended up with the below error:
Exception calling "Navigate" with "1" argument(s): "The interface is unknown. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706B5)"

Background

The code used by OP is:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$webApps = Get-SpWebapplication
foreach($webapp in $WebApps){
$URL = $webapp.URL
}
$ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.Navigate($URL)
while ($ie.busy -eq $true) {
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 600
}
$ie.Visible = $true

Unfortunately we couldn't reproduce the error message. As per the code it opened up the last web application in the URL variable.

Solution

$webapps = Get-SPWebApplication
$ie = New-Object -ComObject 'InternetExplorer.Application'
$ie.Visible = $true
foreach($webapp in $webapps)
{
    $ie.Navigate($webapp.url , 2048)
    
}

**Note: We need to know the BrowserNavConstants to open URL in new tab.

**

Reference

Navigate
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752093(v=vs.85).aspx
BrowserNavConstants
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa768360%28v=vs.85%29.aspx