One of my colleague wanted to activate the Content Approval on a couple of lists and libraries within a site and we know that going to the settings of 25 libraries for the same setting is easy but a pain.
Solution:
This can be done through Powershell.
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
$siteUrl="http://www.SharePointBlue.com"
$lists = @("Documents","New Documents","ListA")
$site=Get-SPSite $siteUrl
$web=$site.RootWeb
ForEach ($listName in $lists)
{
try
{
$list=$web.Lists[$listName]
$list.EnableModeration = $false
$list.Update()
$MSG = $Now.ToString() + " | Content Approval activated on list: " + $listName
write-host $MSG
}
catch [system.exception]
{
$Now = [System.DateTime]::Now
$MSG = $Now.ToString() + "Exception: " + $_.Exception.Message
write-host -f red $MSG
}
}