How to Get a List of Checked out Files– SharePoint PowerShell

In this article, let us see, how to retrieve the List of Files which are checked out in SharePoint

 
 ################ This method will return the Checked Out files 
 function GetCheckedOutFiles()
 {
     Write-Host "Entered GetCheckedOutFiles Method" -ForegroundColor Yellow 
     Add-Content "$ProgressFile" "Entered GetCheckedOutFiles Method"
     $script:Progress = "9:Entered"
     
     # Get the Web Application Object    
     $WebApplication = Get-SPWebApplication $Config.Configuration.WebApplication.URL
 
     # Assign the XML Output File Paths
     $CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path = $scriptBase + "Reports-$LogTimeCheckedOutFiles.xml"
     
     # Create the XML File Tags
     
     $xmlWriter = New-Object System.XMl.XmlTextWriter($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path,$Null)
     $xmlWriter.Formatting = 'Indented'
     $xmlWriter.Indentation = 1
     $XmlWriter.IndentChar = "`t"
     $xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument()
     $xmlWriter.WriteComment('Files List On the WebApplication ' + $WebApplication.DisplayName)
     $xmlWriter.WriteStartElement('WebApplication')
     $xmlWriter.WriteEndElement()
     $xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument()
     $xmlWriter.Flush()
     $xmlWriter.Close()
     
     # Get theSiteCollections
     $SiteCollections =  $WebApplication | Get-SPSite -Limit All
     #$SiteCollections =  Get-SPSite "http://ctsc00556722901:5555/sites/TeamSite2/"
     
     # write the output on XML File
     $xmlDoc = [System.Xml.XmlDocument](Get-Content $CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path);
     $siteCollectionNode = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("SiteCollections")
     $xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//WebApplication").AppendChild($siteCollectionNode)
     $xmlDoc.Save($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path)
     
     # Iterate through the Site Collection
     foreach($SiteCollection in $SiteCollections)
     {
         $siteCollectionName = $SiteCollection | select @{label = "Title";Ex = {$_.rootweb.Title}} 
         
         # write the output on XML File
         $xmlDoc = [System.Xml.XmlDocument](Get-Content $CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path);
         $siteCollectionNode = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("SiteCollection")
         $xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("//WebApplication/SiteCollections").AppendChild($siteCollectionNode)
         $siteCollectionNode.SetAttribute("Name", $siteCollectionName.Title)
         
         $subSitesNode = $siteCollectionNode.AppendChild($xmlDoc.CreateElement("SubSites"));
         $xmlDoc.Save($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path)
         
         # Get the Sub Webs
         $Webs = Get-SPWeb -site $SiteCollection -Limit All 
         
         # Iterate through the Webs
         foreach($Web in $Webs)
         {
             # write the output on XML File
             
             $subSiteNameNode = $subSitesNode.AppendChild($xmlDoc.CreateElement("SubSite"));
             $subSiteNameNode.SetAttribute("Name", $Web.Title)
             $subSiteNameNode.SetAttribute("Url", $Web.Url)
             $subSiteNameNode.SetAttribute("WebID", $Web.Id)
             $parentWebTitle = ""
                             
             if($Web.ParentWebID -ne "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000")
             {
                 $parentWeb = $SiteCollection.OpenWeb($Web.ParentWebID)
                 $parentWebTitle = $parentWeb.Title
                 
             }
             else
             {
                 $parentWebTitle = "RootWeb"
             }    
             $subSiteNameNode.SetAttribute("ParentWebName", $parentWebTitle)
             $subSiteNameNode.SetAttribute("ParentWebID", $Web.ParentWebID)
                             
             $FilesNode = $subSiteNameNode.AppendChild($xmlDoc.CreateElement("Files"));
             
             $xmlDoc.Save($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path)
             
             # Iterate through the Lists
             foreach ($list in $Web.Lists) 
             {
                 # Check for Document Library
                 if ($list.BaseType -eq “DocumentLibrary”) 
                 {
                     # Iterate through the Items
                     foreach ($item in $list.Items) 
                     {
                         # Check for Checked Out Status
                         if($item.File.CheckOutStatus -ne "None")
                         {
                             $FileNode = $FilesNode.AppendChild($xmlDoc.CreateElement("File"));
                             $FileNode.SetAttribute("Name", $Item.File.Title)
                             $FileNode.SetAttribute("Url", $Item.File.Url)
                             $FileNode.SetAttribute("CheckedOutBy", $item.File.CheckedOutBy)
                             $FileNode.SetAttribute("ServerRelativeUrl", $item.File.ServerRelativeUrl)
                             $FileNode.SetAttribute("List", $list.Title)
                                                             
                             $xmlDoc.Save($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path)
                         }
                     }
                 }
             } 
         }
     }    
     # write the output on XML File
     $xmlDoc.Save($CheckedOutFiles_XML_Path)
     
     Write-Host "Completed GetCheckedOutFiles Method" -ForegroundColor Yellow 
     Add-Content "$ProgressFile" "Completed GetCheckedOutFiles Method"
     $script:Progress = "9:Success"
 }
 ####### End of Method #################################
 
 
 

The snippet is self-explanatory.

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.