Happy 2012 everyone! Here is an updated Powershell script for setting the powerplan on a server in a much more efficient manner.   A big shout out to Amir Rothschild - PFE Extraordinaire & Shay Levy - PowerShell MVP – Thanks guys! Here is the...

  Recently I was playing around with the IIS 7 PowerShell snap-in and I found a simple way of obtaining what application pool a given web application is running under. The code is pretty simple and to do this, run from a standard PowerShell console...

The latest verion of the PAL tool can be downloaded from here: http://pal.codeplex.com/ This version includes a new threshold file for SharePoint 2010. We look forward to your feedback and comments. email me at Aaron.Saikovski [AT] microsoft...

Many folks from the recent Melbourne SharePoint Saturday event were asking me about version table from my patching slides so here it is:   Build Version Download links October 2011 CU 14.0.6112.5000 SPF: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596508 SPS...

  Thanks to all those who attended my session on patching at SharePoint Saturday. Here are the slides from my presentation:

  Many folks from the recent Melbourne SharePoint Saturday event were asking me about version table from my patching slides so here it is:   SharePoint Build Version October 2011 Cumulative Update 14.0.6109.5005 August 2011 Cumulative Update...

  I was recently working with one of our large enterprise customers and they were experiencing rendering and performance related issues with Office Web apps in SharePoint 2010, specifically the word and PowerPoint viewing services. I did a bit of...

  Here is an article that has just been published around updating/patching your farms with minimal to little downtime. We look forward to any feedback you might have on the article. This has been tested in our labs and we look forward to hearing...

  Here are some useful PowerShell scripts that I use to evaluate customer’s SQL environments. They make no changes to anything but are useful for reporting and verification purposes and write the output to a file in a nice and clean tabular format...

  I am a very big fan of the PAL tool to assist in sifting through event logs when diagnosing server or environment issues. One thing is doesn't come with is a threshold file specifically for SharePoint 2010. Luckily I have saved you the need in...

  Hi All, My Slides from the presentation i gave on Patching SharePoint 2010 can be found on my skydrive here: SPS Syd 2011 Patching

  A colleague of mine and I were mucking about with PowerShell recently and came up with the following script to disable MySite creation for all Authenticated users. This setting is on by default as well as most of the other social features and in...

  I was recently at a customer site and we found by changing the power plan on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server to High performance really gave SQL server a nice boost, I recommend making the power change on physical servers only as virtual servers...

  The following PowerShell script will get the patch level of your farm: 1: #gets the build string for a SP2010 FARM 2: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 3: Add-pssnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -EA silentlycontinue ...

I have made updates to my very useful PowerShell solution deployer and though it would be useful to others, so here it is. I got tired of typing all the PowerShell deployment commands each time for a .WSP, so I bundled them up into a simple cmdlet that...

The latest cumulative updates are now available for download. The hotfixes can be requested from here: SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266423 SharePoint Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276339   The updates will update...

While testing some functionality for a client recently I found something interesting when publishing shared content types through the content type hub. After initial creation of the content types and adding subscribers all seemed to work well. That is...

I wanted the ability to be right click within windows explorer to enable me to run powershell from where I was in Windows explorer. The following registry change enabled me to do just that: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder...

This is a great article for those who want to get a SharePoint 2010 farm up and running quickly and easily. I am working on augmenting this process further by creating an installer that configures, builds a complete SharePoint 2010 farm with all services...

The countdown has begun to the biggest SharePoint conference in Australia and the southern hemisphere. I am hoping to catch up with many partners and customers and as an added bonus, we have Arpan Shah from the core US SharePoint team as a keynote speaker...

The following have just been published as part of the SharePoint 2010 RTM release. Happy reading! SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: software boundaries and limits http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66438e41...

Here is a very basic script that will configure a barebones SharePoint 2010 farm. This isn’t designed for a production ready environment, but is great for a test lab and if you need to get something up and running very quickly. I am in the process of...

The official announcement is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx And for those wanting to know the official build, the version string is: 14.0.4763.1000. Congrats to the product teams involved! Its...

Check out the conference site to see the awesome line up of international and local speakers. Arpan Shah, Director at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) who owns Technical Product Management for SharePoint Products and Technologies will be delivering...