< Update 2010.02.23 Re-ordered provisioning steps to fit with supported test cases> NEW! Looking for a simplified process for working with SharePoint and PowerShell? Check out: SPModule . <Update 2009.11.20 Initialize-SPResourceSecurity and...

Twitter for those who just want to consume information… By now most of the world has at least heard of Twitter. For those who aren’t already using it, I imagine the vast majority have taken a stance of  “Why would anyone care when I go to the bathroom...

I’ve had a request to consolidate all of my little script examples into a single blog post. While I’m not starting out with all 101 examples, I will continually update this post with scripts ideas and examples. Enjoy. Active Directory Using Quest’s...

I've been in some rather deep discussions on Enterprise features, so I thought I would share some findings on what they are, where they are, and what they do. First, there are three different Enterprise features that can be enabled within a farm. They...

This has come up several times now and I thought I would contribute a solution that has worked for me. The problem: Need to create an Audience based on a profile of a SharePoint user. The users is, however, stored in a SQL Server membership database ...

Using PowerShell to support SharePoint has saved me quite a bit of time. I can do just about everything I would do in .NET, only without firing up Visual Studio just to check a property of a SPWeb object. I have compiled a collection of PowerShell...

In my last post, I wrote about using WSPBuilder to automate the process of creating the manifest.xml and solution.ddf files.  But what about the elements.xml file in your feature?  For a lot of my customers doing WCM solutions on MOSS, they...

I’ve posted this under my 101 Uses for PowerShell , but I thought it was so helpful that it deserved it’s own post. The script below uses PowerShell to get a collection of event entries from the “Application” Event Log.  It passes a wildcard filter...

I discovered a while back that it is not possible to hide the Enterprise Features “Features” because they have Activation Dependencies.  You can see more on what these features include in this post:  Enterprise Features Exposed . In a conversation...

Last weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at Boston’s SharePoint Saturday .  I met some great people, enjoyed some EXCELLENT food, and talked A LOT of SharePoint. For those who couldn’t make it, here is a link to the slide deck from my session...

I’m all about shortcuts when it comes to development and there’s no exception for PowerShell. Browsing around this morning, I found two useful shortcuts that I didn’t know existed. F7  “History” -  Pressing the F7 key will show a dialog window...

While developing a custom feature receiver, I was attempting to delete a masterpage file from the MasterPage Gallery when I received an SPException with the message: " Cannot remove file "<filename>". Error Code 158 " Since I found no help on the...

Here is a useful batch file for automating site collection level backups. It creates a unique timestamp string and uses it in the name of the backup. You can easily create a scheduled task to run this every week or every night. You will still need to...

You may receive this error when re-installing MOSS after an upgrade from WSS 2.0 or SPS 2003: The current installation mode does not support SKU to SKU upgrades because there exists an older version of Windows SharePoint Services that must be upgraded...

I talk to many developers who are still using "xcopy" to deploy some of their SharePoint files to the 12 Hive (especially trust files and custom stsadm commands). It is well known that the manifest.xml file within a WSP can be configured to deploy assemblies...

We've all struggled with using VPCs for our SharePoint development. Thanks to Bamboo Solutions , we can now install WSS and MOSS on our host laptops running under Vista. Check out this page for steps on how to complete this. Downloads SQL Server...

MOSS Automated Build & Deploy with MSBuild Here are the steps to create an MSBuild script to: 1. Label Visual Source Safe project with a new version 2. Get latest source code to a build server 3. Compile source code 4. Look for .DDF...

How to add the PeopleEditor (People Picker) control to your custom application development (ASPX, user controls, web parts, etc.) The control we are interested in is the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.PeopleEditor control. First, we need to add a reference...

I’m kicking myself for my recent hiatus from blogging...  I’ve been swamped with customer responsibilities, pre-sales work and discovering the wonderful world of social networking.  However, I have a lot of great material to share, starting...

Podcast on basic techniques of using PowerShell to support your SharePoint environment: To download the video above, right-click and choose Save Target As: Using PowerShell to Support SharePoint

The Twin Cities SharePoint Camp has been announced for January 24, 2009.  Here are the details of the event: Course Overview Join New Horizons of Minnesota for the 2nd Bi-Annual Twin Cities SharePoint Camp Event. Spend a day with other SharePoint...

For those of you who are saying, “huh?” right now…let’s start with a brief introduction to OBA (Office Business Applications). Long Definition:   “Office Business Applications are an emerging class of application that helps businesses unlock the...

Some wonderful things are happening for SharePoint developers all across the world. Thanks to Jeremy Thake at http://wss.made4the.net/ , the SharePoint development community now has a wiki to collaborate on. You can find the wiki here: http://sharepointdevwiki...

I’ve seen a couple notes regarding this on Twitter , so I thought I’d check it out for myself. A company by the name of Webstate set off to make the next best thing for the iPhone, an application that integrates with SharePoint. After doing some digging...

One of the great new features in the Office 2007 application suite is the addition of the Office Ribbon.  While the ribbon provides most commonly used functions in an easy to navigate control, the true power of the ribbon comes in the ability for...