SharePoint 2013: Modify "Activities I want to share in my newsfeed" for all users using PowerShell

Task

I needed to modify "Activities I want to share in my newsfeed" value centrally for all users in a SharePoint 2013 farm.

Solution

With the following PowerShell, you can set all options checked.

$Site = Get-SPSite -Limit 1    

$ServiceContext = Get-SPServiceContext($Site)
$ProfileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ServiceContext)
$Profiles = $ProfileManager.GetEnumerator()    
    
foreach ($Profile in $Profiles)
{
      # 4095 is decimal value of 111111111111, meaning all options are checked. 
      # Binary value describes what options are checked
      # so 000000000001 --> 1 (1 being the value you want to set as the field value
      # would mean only "Participation in communities" would be checked
      $Profile["SPS-PrivacyActivity"].Value = 4095 
      $Profile.Commit()
}

 

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