Recently the folks over on the Azure team released a bunch of improvements to Azure. One of them caught my eye. They’ve provided us a way to enable PowerShell remoting when provisioning a machine. As someone who tries to automate all things I was...

A lot of the demos, lab environments, and test I do are in Azure. I try to script everything so that it’s repeatable and I don’t turn into a monkey clicking next. What fun is that? With that said I’ve put together how I setup my environment for communicating...

Recently a customer reached out to me with a challenge. They’d just purchased a number of Surface Pro devices. Being good stewards they wanted to ensure these devices had BitLocker enabled. We solved this by using a simple PowerShell script that gathered...

This is a short video showing my Surface RT running Visual Studio 2012. A how-to is coming soon, so stay tuned! To read more >>

This journey started when I was building a test lab on Windows Azure. The goal was to run two SharePoint instances, one SharePoint 2010 farm and one SharePoint 2013 farm. In keeping with automating this network setup and build… I wanted a good way to...

A few months back I wrote a “module” for scripting the Kinect with PowerShell. It’s located at: https://github.com/adminian/PowerKinect . Recently a new Kinect SDK was released. I’m going to be testing out the new SDK to make sure everything works as...

Here is a short video showing how to install Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. I use these tools to do SharePoint 2013 development. To read more >>

I was working with one of my customers today. They asked a question… Can we use Add-Type against DLLs in the GAC? This is what I added to my profile. To read more >>

Today I was trying to download a few of the VMs I have running at azure. After a couple of minutes on Bing I had a plan. First you'll need your storage Account ID and the Primary Access Key. The Storage Account ID can be found easily on the Preview Portal...

Let’s say you have a ContentDB that’s growing larger. I know, crazy idea right… Anyhow, the SQL server is running out of drive space. The solution is to move the ContentDB. There are two ways of going about this. One is to move to a new server instance...

Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30384 SharePoint 2013 Preview Upgrade Process http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/3/4/C342C7FA-521A-4DE8-B5CE-6A507CB354D3/sp2013...

Like its predecessors, SharePoint 2013 has a whole list of prerequisites to install. Not unexpected, but yet it’s a hoop we need to plan on jumping through. SharePoint 2013’s prereqs are: Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 Release...

Just some notes I have in my PowerShell profile... <# Text File Special Characters # -- `0 - (zero)Null -- `a - Alert -- `b - Backspace -- `f - Form feed -- `n - New line -- `r - Carriage return -- `t - Horizontal tab -- `v - Vertical tab --...

In SharePoint 2010 PowerShell should be used to deploy solutions and enable features. There are a number of cmdlets used in this process. PowerShell Cmdlets To add a solution to SharePoint previously used: · Stsadm –o addsolution...

This is a quick and dirty screencast. It's pretty basic and I hope it helps.

As I run across interesting stuff, I’ll post.