Reporting on SharePoint Event Receivers

Joel Plaut

February 27, 2013

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SharePoint Event Receiver Reporting

Event Receivers are a very powerful SharePoint construct. Because of timing issues, they can be tricky to get right. My good friend Jimil Ibrahim asked about this recently, prompting me to provide just such a reporting capability for general use. Below is a script that will quickly generate a report of all Event Receivers in all Libraries, in all SPWebs in all SPSites. The output is easily imported into MS-Excel for rapid analysis.

$wa=Get-SPWebApplication http ://SharePoint  #susbstitute with your own Web Application.
 
foreach ($site in $wa.Sites)
{
Write-Host "S" -NoNewline
    foreach ($web in $site.allwebs)
    {
    Write-Host "W" -NoNewline
 
        for ($LibIndex=0; $LibIndex -lt $web.Lists.Count; $LibIndex++)
        {
        Write-Host "L" -NoNewline
            $list = $Web.Lists[$LibIndex];
 
            $i=0;
 
             
            foreach ($ER in $list.EventReceivers)
            {
                Add-Content C:ReportsERs.csv "$($Site.url),$($web.title),$($web.url),$($List.title), Event $($i): $($ER.name), $($ER.Synchronization)"
                $i++
            }
 
        }
    }
}