Category: SharePoint

Everyone always needs to do this right? I used to do this with a SharePoint homepage but using the URL Rewrite module is a much neater solution and portable. So, URL Rewrite is an addon module that you can add from the Web Platform Installer here. Install that and search for URL Rewrite and install it.

Then use the below powershell code to add https and redirect to your mim site, the script will query all the sites then ask you to enter an index corresponding to the site…..Macho Ninja!

$webSites = get-WebSite
$global:index=-1
$webSites |  Format-Table -Property @{name="index";expression={$global:index;$global:index+=1}},name
$sitenameindex = read-host -Prompt "Enter Site index"
$sitename = $webSites[$sitenameindex].name

try
{
$RuleName = "HTTPS Redirect"
$Rule = @{
 Name = $RuleName
 patternSyntax = 'ECMAScript'
 stopProcessing = 'True'
 match = @{
  url = '(.*)'
  ignoreCase = 'True'
  negate = 'False'
 }
 conditions = @{
  logicalGrouping = 'MatchAll'
  trackAllCaptures = 'True'
 }
 action = @{
  type = 'Redirect'
  url = 'https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}'
  appendQueryString = 'False'
  redirectType = 'Permanent'
 }
}
Add-WebConfigurationProperty -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\$SiteName" -Filter "/system.webServer/rewrite/rules" -Name "." -Value $Rule 
$match = @{
 input = '{HTTPS}'
 matchType = 'Pattern'
 pattern = 'off'
 ignoreCase = 'True'
 negate = 'False'
}
Add-WebConfigurationProperty -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\$SiteName" -Filter "/system.webServer/rewrite/rules/rule[@Name='$RuleName']/conditions" -Name "." -Value $match


$RuleName = "Redirect to MIM Site"
$Rule = @{
 Name = $RuleName
 patternSyntax = 'ECMAScript'
 stopProcessing = 'True'
 match = @{
  url = '^$'
  ignoreCase = 'True'
  negate = 'False'
 }
 action = @{
  type = 'Redirect'
  url = '/IdentityManagement/default.aspx'
  appendQueryString = 'False'
  redirectType = 'Permanent'
 }
}
Add-WebConfigurationProperty -PSPath "IIS:\Sites\$SiteName" -Filter "/system.webServer/rewrite/rules" -Name "." -Value $Rule
}
catch
{
Write-Host "There was a problem............." -ForegroundColor Red
write-host $_.Exception.Message -ForegroundColor Red
exit
}
Write-Host "$sitename has been updated successfully...........Enjoy!" -ForegroundColor Green

The reference for the re-write module is here. Be careful when using permamnent as your redirectType though if you are testing this out it may be worth using temporary as when you use Permanent the rule sticks even when you restart/hard refresh the browser. You either have to clear your cache or start in private browsing for the new change to appear which took me a while to work out why my perfectly corrected rule was still using an old incorrect rule when debugging.