Experience Sitecore !

It is 2.5 years already since I launched Sitecore.Link project and it made a great input to the community in terms of accumulating and finding technical information. It served well as a starting point for those willing quickly to obtain all available knowledge about some specific aspects of Sitecore as all the links are split into 150+ categories from 15+ top-level areas (ie. SXA, Helix, Security, Media etc.)

From the back-end prospective Sitecore.Link is one of the greatest things I've ever done, with all automation, crawlers and bit of artificial intelligence and machine learning, finding the new materials and taking off all the monotonous work from me, except the one and only thing I should do - taking the decision (on adding that particular link to the collection after reading it).

Speaking about front-end and UX I can now say that things were also great 2 years ago when the project gained 1-2K of links, not 16K+ as for today. It offered real-time predictive input, powerful filtering and few more. But many of these features came out of PoC (as well as the project itself entirely) and have been added more or less spontaneously in the limited timeframes (yes, I have a full-time job plus 3 hours of commute each day), that's why front-end and UX did not expect such a growth of data. I bravely optimized everything as much as could until hitting the performance ceiling of rendering. So it was just a matter of time when to perform reUX and rewrite, rather than whether to.

Finally, the time has come! I am doing the entire rework of Sitecore.Link project.

When attending SUGCON 2018 I was very enthusiastic to find out how perfectly GraphQL stands for querying the data. Since front-end of Sitecore.Link is, in fact, a single page application - JSS would suit the best, while the data itself becomes bucketable implementing new taxonomy. So, as for the moment, I came to the following changes:

Most of back-end and crawlers will remain as they are. From the new features, apart from changing data storage, I plan to add a page where blog authors will be easily able to test and adjust their resources for Sitecore.Link parser them further automatically, and even see how crawlers process their blogs in real-time.

Front-end will entirely rework UI to fit visitors' day-to-day needs to be as quick as possible. UI will be re-written to Vue.js backed by Sitecore Javascript Services (JSS)

At the moment, only blog names are searchable, but after changes will take place all articles' content also becomes tokenized for relevancy in order to provide more precise results and order. Such a nice Sitecore Google will be born, lol)

Once completed, the project will be delivered to Azure PaaS for hosting.

Outcomes

One of the most important things - when done, the source code becomes opensource (MIT) on GitHub - this will bring to the community a real-world example of JSS-running website (but not only - plenty of Sitecore features will be there as implementation example for others). Since the project is community-based and is fed by the community-driven data, it will serve the community in full, including the source code to be hared and ideally pull-requested with new features or fixes.

Another community support back to the project will become a browser extension for submitting currently open URL (of a blog post) into the links database by specifying relevant categories as well as other information, after a quick moderation of course.

Numerous blog posts from myself, describing the changes implemented and sharing the experience of JSS and other features done will accompany this transformation.

In order to make all mentioned above happen, I finish my current contract and do not pick anything next in the following 2 months, to be able fully to concentrate on this amazing challenges. I am also looking for any support from Sitecore Technical Marketing team on technical issues

Introduction. Most of you are already familiar with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE). This is a genius module written by Adam Najmanowicz and Michael West, that not just brings the power of console into Sitecore, allowing to maintain and automate almost everything, but also integrates that into Sitecore UI so that one may have pretty nice reports on virtually anything in their system. But today I am going to tell you about one underestimated part of SPE - Remoting,

What is Remoting? Old school developers remember this term from the first version of .NET where it used to name the technology of building distributed applications with purely means of the framework in pre-RESTful years. Not a nice term for not the best technology! But in SPE Remoting got more adequate meaning - executing scripts remotely. The idea is to allow running SPE script from the standarв Windows PowerShell console - in that case, a script is serialized and send for the remote execution to Sitecore server. That means it will be executed in the standard Sitecore context, same as normal SPE script you run in Sitecore PowerShell Console within your Sitecore instance. Then the results will be returned back to original you original system PowerShell window as if you ran them locally.

Why do I need that? Well, you may not realise you need that straight away, but being able to expose the power of SPE outside gives you an ultimate power of maintaining your instances internally. What firstly comes into my head is Continuous Integration - now you have the tool for managing content and precise fine-tuning everything within your instances. Not limited to - you also have access to servers filesystem, can download and upload files, same for media library, manipulate users and permissions. For example, you may automate regular downloading logs from all of your servers or whatever you may decide.

Great, I'm interested. How do I make it work? This article is all about setting up SPE Remoting for your instance and getting first results. So, here we go.

Firstly download Sitecore Powershell Extensions module itself (if you don't yet have) and install as you normally install the packages. The module is relatively large and it may take a while until it gets done. Then SPE becomes present in your Sitecore start menu:

SPE module comes already with remoting built-in however it requires few more steps to enable and configure it.

There is a new security role that becomes available upon SPE installation: sitecore\PowerShell Extensions Remoting. You must make your credentials user for external remoting connection (applies to users and/or other roles) to be a member of this role, even (and especially) if that is sitecore\admin. If you don't do that you will see following error:

Secondly, download SPE Remoting module for the same version you may find it there along with regular SPE on Marketplace:

Note - that is not a Sitecore module and it's not for Package Installer. The term "module" is too meaningful here and in current context it deals with PowerShell module. Instead, extract archive content into you PowerShell modules root folder - for example <YOUR_USER_FOLDER>\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\SPE folder

You may need to import that module first in order to use it from within Windows PowerShell console. Make sure you set the execution policy to:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

and the import command:

Import-Module -Name SPE

Before writing a basic actual script, we also need to adjust configuration - module authors treat security seriously. The configuration file is located at: <INSTANCE_ROOT>\App_Config\Include\Cognifide.PowerShell.config and the article on how-to can be found here.

Since you are likely experimenting on your local machine and are more relaxed regarding security - you may get things sorted easier by applying a patch file to weaken security. Make sure you use if only for local dev and never in higher environments. As a bonus - the patch won't be overwritten when reinstalling the SPE module.

Finally, we can create and execute the script. As the very bare minimum, I suggest the very simple script for you to test. Create PS.ps1 and copy the below content into it:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Import-Module -Name SPE

$session = New-ScriptSession -Username admin -Password b -ConnectionUri https://platform.dev.local

Invoke-RemoteScript -ScriptBlock {
    Get-Item -Path "master:\content\Home"
} -Session $session 

Now execute that:

And voila! Although visually it is not as impressive, what actually happens on this screenshot is getting a simple query sent to Sitecore instance, executed remotely with the results returned back to Windows PowerShell, all transparently for the caller.

The reason for me to write the article was the number of efforts I spent on getting things understood, downloaded and setup, configured and executed. Some pieces of documentation are not available, while others not a descriptive. Once again, thanks to Michael West for his support, and hope this article will encourage you at least to try that!

1. Write to CSV
2. Using link fields
3. Update item presentation final layout
4. Traverse tree with query
5. Read from CSV
6. Output all object properties
7. Move item
8. List cms users
9. Get and edit an item
10. Generate google sitemap XML
11. Exclude template
12. Create users from CSV
13. Create an item
14. Convert datetime field value to DateTime object
15. Change item template
16. Add base template
17. Parse a Rich Text to replace elements
18. Generate a hash of a media file
19. Exporting the username and custom properties
20. Show List View with all users' properties
21. Set workflow for all items
22. Unlock items of a template recursively
23. Zip and download sitecore media library folder
24. Zip and download logs
25. Updating renderings properties to enable VaryByData
26. New media item
27. Update media item
28. List Roles for User
29. Remove unused media items
30. Get items modified in last 7 days

$everythingUnderHome = Get-Item master: -Query "/sitecore/content/Home//*"
$outputFilePath = "C:\temp\my-csv-file.csv"
$results = @();

$everythingUnderHome | ForEach-Object {

  $properties = @{
        Name = $_.Name
        Template = $_.TemplateName
        Path = $_.ItemPath
  }

  $results += New-Object psobject -Property $properties
}

$Results | Select-Object Name,Template,Path | Export-Csv -notypeinformation -Path $outputFilePath

#Get an alias
$alias = = Get-Item -Path "master:/sitecore/system/Aliases/test"

#Get the link field
[Sitecore.Data.Fields.LinkField]$field = $_.Fields["Linked item"]

# the path to the target item
$field.InternalPath

# The guid if internal. Otherwise this is an Empty GUID
$field.TargetID

# 'internal' or 'external'
$field.LinkType

# Other proporties include MediaPath, QueryString and Target

$items = Get-Item master:/content/home//* | Where-Object { $_.Fields["__Final Renderings"] -like "*col-huge*" }

$items | ForEach-Object {    
    Write-Host $_.Fields["__Final Renderings"]
    
    $_.Editing.BeginEdit()
    
    $_["__Final Renderings"] = $_.Fields["__Final Renderings"].toString().replace("col-huge", "col-wide-1");
    
    $_.Editing.EndEdit();
    
    Write-Host $_.Fields["__Final Renderings"]

$everythingUnderHome = Get-Item master: -Query "/sitecore/content/Home//*"

$everythingUnderHome | ForEach-Object {

  Write-Host "Item name: " + $_.Name
}

$csv = Import-Csv "C:\temp\my-csv-file.csv"

foreach($row in $csv)
{
    if ($row -eq $csv[0])
    {
        #Skip the first row as it contains the column headings in your CSV
        continue;
    }
    
    #Output value for Column1 and Column2
    Write-Host $row."Column1";
    Write-Host $row."Column2";
}

[Sitecore.Data.Fields.LinkField]$field = $_.Fields["Linked item"]
Write-Host ($field | Format-Table | Out-String)

$item = Get-Item master:/content/home/old/item

#Will move and place this item under the target new
Move-Item -Path $item.ItemPath "master:\sitecore\content\Home\new";

$allSitecoreUsers = Get-User -Filter "sitecore\*" 

$allSitecoreUsers | ForEach-Object {
    Write-Host $_.Name
}

$item = Get-Item master:/content/home

$item.Editing.BeginEdit();

$item["Title"] = "New title for the home item!";

$item.Editing.EndEdit();

$xmlWriter = New-Object System.XMl.XmlTextWriter('c:\temp\sitemap.xml',$Null)
$xmlWriter.Formatting = 'Indented'
$xmlWriter.Indentation = 1
$XmlWriter.IndentChar = "`t"

$xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument()
$xmlWriter.WriteStartElement('urlset')
$XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString('xmlns', 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9')

$everythingUnderHome = Get-Item master: -Query "/sitecore/content/Home//*"
$baseUrl = "https://example.com"

$everythingUnderHome | ForEach-Object {

    $url = $baseUrl + [Sitecore.Links.LinkManager]::GetItemUrl($_)

    $xmlWriter.WriteStartElement('url')
    $xmlWriter.WriteElementString('loc',$url)
    $xmlWriter.WriteEndElement()
}

$xmlWriter.WriteEndElement()
$xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument()
$xmlWriter.Flush()
$xmlWriter.Close()

$item = Get-Item -Path master: -Query "/sitecore/content//*[@@templatename !='Sample Item']"

#Or

$item = Get-Item -Path master: -Query "/sitecore/content//*" | Where-Object { $_.TemplateName -ne "Sample Item" -and $_.TemplateName -ne "Local Datasource

$csv = Import-Csv "C:\temp\my-csv-file.csv"

foreach($row in $csv)
{
    if ($row -eq $csv[0])
    {
        #Skip the first row as it contains the column headings in your CSV
        continue;
    }
    
    #New-User docs: https://doc.sitecorepowershell.com/appendix/commands/New-User.html
    #Include domain in username to specify the target domain (e.g extranet\adam)
    New-User -Identity $row."Username" -Enabled -Password $row."Password" -Email $row."Email" -FullName $row."FullName"
}

$item = New-Item "master:/content/home/my new sample item" -type "Sample/Sample Item"

$dateTime = ([sitecore.dateutil]::IsoDateToDateTime($item["My Date Field"])

Write-Host $dateTime.ToString("dd MMMM yyyy")

#Output 10 September 2016

$item = Get-Item master:/content/home

$newTemplate = [Sitecore.Configuration.Factory]::GetDatabase("master").Templates["Sample/Sample Item"];

$item.ChangeTemplate($newTemplate)

$targetTemplate    = Get-item 'master:/sitecore/templates/User Defined/Common/Data';
$templateFilter    = Get-Item "master:/sitecore/templates/System/Templates/Template";
$templateToBeAddAsBaseTemplate     = Get-Item 'master:/sitecore/templates/User Defined/Common/Data/Carousel'
 
 
Get-ChildItem $targetTemplate.FullPath -recurse | Where-Object { $_.TemplateName -eq $templateFilter.Name -and $_.Name -eq "promo"} | ForEach-Object {
    if(-not ($_."__Base template" -match "$($templateToBeAddAsBaseTemplate.Id)")){
           #If not exist then add
         $_."__Base template" = "$( $_."__Base template")|$($templateToBeAddAsBaseTemplate.Id)"
    }
}

# Home Item
$rootId = "{110D559F-DEA5-42EA-9C1C-8A5DF7E70EF9}"

# Get only the immediate children
$items = @((Get-ChildItem -Path "master:" -ID $rootId))
foreach($item in $items) {
    $html = $item.Text
    if([String]::IsNullOrEmpty($html)) { continue }
    $newText = $html.Replace("
", "
").Replace("
", "")
    $item.Text = $newText
}

#Generate MD5 Hash of item
function To-Byte-Array
        {
            param (
            [CmdletBinding()]
            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
            [AllowEmptyString()]
            [AllowEmptyCollection()]
            [AllowNull()]
            [Object]
            $InputStream)
             
            $InputStream.Position = 0
            $buffer = New-Object byte[] $InputStream.Length
            $i = 0
            For ($totalBytesCopied=0; $totalBytesCopied -lt $InputStream.Length; $i++) {
                $totalBytesCopied += $InputStream.Read($buffer, $totalBytesCopied, $InputStream.Length - $totalBytesCopied)
            }
             
            $buffer
        }
 
$item = Get-Item master: -ID "{20AA9D26-F1D6-43DB-B8A8-21EC04A5A4CB}" -Language de-DE
    $mediaItem = New-Object Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem($item)
    $media = [Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager]::GetMedia($mediaItem)
    $stream = $media.GetStream().Stream
    try {
        $bytes = To-Byte-Array $stream
    }
    finally
    {
        if ($null -ne $stream -and $stream -is [System.IDisposable])
        {
            $stream.Dispose()
        }
    }
     
    $md5 = new-object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
    $hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash($bytes))
     
    Write-Host $hash

$property = @(
"Name",
@{Name='Email';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Email') }},
@{Name='FirstName';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('FirstName') }},
@{Name='LastName';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('LastName') }},
@{Name='Title';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Title') }},
@{Name='Company';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Company') }},
@{Name='Country';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Country') }},
@{Name='ZipCode';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('ZipCode') }},
@{Name='Department';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Department') }},
@{Name='Street';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Street') }},
@{Name='City';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('City') }},
@{Name='Phone';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Phone') }},
@{Name='Username';Expression={ $PSItem.Profile.GetCustomProperty('Username') }},
)

# Gets not disabled extranet users, next select all customer properties and save all properties to CSV file
Get-User -Filter 'extranet\*'  `
    | Where-Object { $_.Profile.State -ne 'Disabled' } `
        |  Select-Object -Property $property `
            | Export-CSV -Path "$apppath\extranet-enabled-uc.csv" -notype -encoding "unicode"
        
Download-File  "$apppath\extranet-enabled-uc.csv"

[System.Web.Security.Membership]::GetAllUsers() |

Show-ListView -Property @{Label="User"; Expression={ $_.UserName} },
    @{Label="Is Online"; Expression={ $_.IsOnline} },
    @{Label="Creation Date"; Expression={ $_.CreationDate} },
    @{Label="Last Login Date"; Expression={ $_.LastLoginDate} },
    @{Label="Last Activity Date"; Expression={ $_.LastActivityDate } }

## 1. Set default workflow state in template’s standard value ##
## 2. Before running script, must set correct Context Item ##
##################################################################

function SetWorkflow($item)
{
## Update only items assigned __Default workflow
if ($item.”__Default workflow” -eq “{A5BC37E7-ED96-4C1E-8590-A26E64DB55EA}”) {
$item.__Workflow = “{A5BC37E7-ED96-4C1E-8590-A26E64DB55EA}”;
$item.”__Workflow state” = “{190B1C84-F1BE-47ED-AA41-F42193D9C8FC}”;
}
}

## Update correct workflow information.
## Uncomment below two lines if you are ready to go for updating
#get-item . -Language * | foreach-object { SetWorkFlow($_) }
#get-childitem . -recurse -Language * | foreach-object { SetWorkFlow($_) }

## Show Updated Result
get-item . -Language * | Format-Table Id, Name, Language, __Workflow, “__Workflow state”, “__Default workflow”
get-childitem . -recurse -Language * | Format-Table Id, Name, Language, __Workflow, “__Workflow state”, “__Default workflow”

Get-ChildItem -Path master:\content\home -Recurse | 
    Where-Object { $_.TemplateId -eq "{ENTER_YOUR_TEMPLATE_GUID}"} | 
    Unlock-Item -PassThru

  
#
# The ZipFiles function is based on noam's answer
# on the following Stack Overflow's page: http://bit.ly/PsZip
#
function ZipItems( $zipArchive, $sourcedir )
{
  Set-Location $sourcedir
  [System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("WindowsBase,Version=3.0.0.0, `
      Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35") | Out-Null
  $ZipPackage=[System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage]::Open($zipArchive, `
      [System.IO.FileMode]::OpenOrCreate, [System.IO.FileAccess]::ReadWrite)
  $items = gci -recurse $sourceDir
  [byte[]]$buff = new-object byte[] 40960
  $i = 0;
  ForEach ($item In $items) {
    $i++
    if([Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager]::HasMediaContent($item)){
      $mediaItem = New-Object "Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem" $item;
      $mediaStream = $mediaItem.GetMediaStream();
      $fileName = Resolve-Path -Path $item.ProviderPath -Relative
      $fileName = "$fileName.$($item.Extension)" `
        -replace "\\","/" -replace "./", "/"
      # Print out the file - the list will show up once the file is downloaded
      "Added: $fileName"
      # Show progress for the operation
      Write-Progress -Activity "Zipping Files " `
        -CurrentOperation "Adding $fileName" `
        -Status "$i out of $($items.Length)" `
        -PercentComplete ($i *100 / $items.Length)
      $partUri = New-Object System.Uri($fileName, [System.UriKind]::Relative)
      $partUri = [System.IO.Packaging.PackUriHelper]::CreatePartUri($partUri);
      $part = $ZipPackage.CreatePart($partUri, `
        "application/zip",  `
        [System.IO.Packaging.CompressionOption]::Maximum)
      $stream=$part.GetStream();
      do {
        $count = $mediaStream.Read($buff, 0, $buff.Length)
        $stream.Write($buff, 0, $count)
      } while ($count -gt 0)
      $stream.Close()
      $mediaStream.Close()
    }
  }
  $ZipPackage.Close()
}
 
#the location will be set by PowerShell automatically based on which item was clicked
$location = get-location
$dateTime = Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-d_hhmmss"
$zipName = Split-Path -leaf $location | % { $_ -replace " ", ""}
$dataFolder = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings]::DataFolder
$zipPath = "$dataFolder\$zipName-$datetime.zip"
 
# Call the Zipping function
ZipItems $zipPath $location
 
#Send user the file, add -NoDialog if you want to skip the download dialogue 
Download-File -FullName $zipPath | Out-Null
 
# Clean up after yourself
Remove-Item $zipPath
 
# Close the results window - we don't really need to see the results
Close-Window

#
# The ZipFiles function is based on noam's answer
# on the following Stack Overflow's page: http://bit.ly/PsZip
#
function ZipFiles( $zipArchive, $sourcedir )
{
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("WindowsBase,Version=3.0.0.0, `
        Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35") | Out-Null
    $ZipPackage=[System.IO.Packaging.ZipPackage]::Open($zipArchive, `
        [System.IO.FileMode]::OpenOrCreate, [System.IO.FileAccess]::ReadWrite)
    $in = gci $sourceDir | select -expand fullName
    [array]$files = $in -replace "C:","" -replace "\\","/"
    ForEach ($file In $files) {
        $fileName = [System.IO.Path]::GetFileName($file);
            $partName=New-Object System.Uri($file, [System.UriKind]::Relative)
            $part=$ZipPackage.CreatePart("/$fileName", "application/zip", `
                [System.IO.Packaging.CompressionOption]::Maximum)
            Try{
                $bytes=[System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($file)
            }Catch{
                $_.Exception.ErrorRecord.Exception
            }
            $stream=$part.GetStream()
            $stream.Write($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)
            $stream.Close()
    }
    $ZipPackage.Close()
}
 
# Get Sitecore folders and format the zip file name
$dateTime = Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-d_hhmmss"
$dataFolder = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings]::DataFolder
$logsFolder = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings]::LogFolder
$myZipFile = "$dataFolder\logs-$datetime.zip"
 
# Warn that the user log files will fail to zip
Write-Host -f Yellow "Zipping files locked by Sitecore will fail." -n
Write-Host -f Yellow "Files listed below were used."
 
# Zip the log files
ZipFiles $myZipFile $LogsFolder
 
#Download the zipped logs
Get-File -FullName $myZipFile | Out-Null
 
#Delete the zipped logs from t

$items = Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.TemplateID -match “{79A0F7AB-17C8-422C-B927-82A1EC666ABC}”} | ForEach-Object {

$renderingInstance = Get-Rendering -Item $_ -Rendering $rendering
if($renderingInstance){
$renderingInstance.VaryByData = 1
Set-Rendering -Item $_ -Instance $renderingInstance
}
}

function New-MediaItem{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]$filePath,

        [Parameter(Position=1, Mandatory=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]$mediaPath)

$mco = New-Object Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaCreatorOptions
$mco.Database = [Sitecore.Configuration.Factory]::GetDatabase("master");
$mco.Language = [Sitecore.Globalization.Language]::Parse("en");
$mco.Versioned = [Sitecore.Configuration.Settings+Media]::UploadAsVersionableByDefault;
$mco.Destination = "$($mediaPath)/$([System.IO.Path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension($filePath))";

$mc = New-Object Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaCreator
$mc.CreateFromFile($filepath, $mco);
}

# Usage example
New-MediaItem "C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\Accelerators.jpg" "$([Sitecore.Constants]::MediaLibraryPath)/Images"

function Update-MediaItem{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$true, ValueFromPipeline=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]$filePath,

        [Parameter(Position=1, Mandatory=$true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
        [string]$mediaPath)

[Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem]$item = gi $mediaPath
[Sitecore.Resources.Media.Media] $media = [Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager]::GetMedia($item);
$extension = [System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($filePath);
$stream = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.FileStream -ArgumentList $filePath, "Open", "Read"
$media.SetStream($stream, $extension);
$stream.Close();
}

# Usage example - overwrite the image created with previous cmdlet with new image
Update-MediaItem "$SitecoreDataFolder\Tchotchkeys.jpg" "$([Sitecore.Constants]::MediaLibraryPath)/Images/Accelerators"

function Get-UserRoles{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
        [string]$Identity
    )
  $user = Get-User $Identity
  return Get-Role -Filter * | Where-Object { $_.IsMember($user,$true,$true) } 
}

Write-Host "Roles for ServicesAPI" -ForegroundColor Green
Get-UserRoles "sitecore\ServicesAPI"

Write-Host "Roles for Admin" -ForegroundColor Green
Get-UserRoles "sitecore\admin"

#Include all paths you do not want to analyse below 
$protectedPaths = @(
    "/sitecore/media library/System/", 
    "/sitecore/media library/Experience Explorer"
    "/sitecore/media library/Images/Social"
    );
    
#Include all item templates you want to ignore in the array below
$protectedTemplates = @(
    [Sitecore.TemplateIDs]::MediaFolder
    );

$itemsToDelete = 
    Get-ChildItem -Path "master:\sitecore\media library" -Recurse |

        # filter out items of templates you do not want to touch
        Where-Object { $_.TemplateID -notin $protectedTemplates } |

        # do not allow items in the protected paths
        Where-Object { 
            $item = $_; 
            $protected = $protectedPaths | Where-Object { ($item.Paths.Path) -match $_ };
            $protected.Count -lt 1;
        } | 

        # and only items that are not used
        Where-Object { [Sitecore.Globals]::LinkDatabase.GetReferrerCount($_) -eq 0 }

#List the items
$itemsToDelete | ft ProviderPath

#If the list above looks like what you want to delete you can uncomment the following line
#$itemsToDelete | Remove-Item

$days = 7;
Read-Variable -Parameters @{ Name="days"; Title="Number of days"} -Title "Pointy haired report" | Out-Null

Get-ChildItem master:\content\home -Recurse | 
    ? { $_."__updated" -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$days) } | 
    Show-ListView -Property ID, Name, "__updated", "__updated by"

Just in case I may need them later, I have attached ready-to-use feature just to drop into solution and adjust:

WebApi.zip (6.9KB)