After working on a problem where the transaction logs for a large database were filling to sizes larger then the actual database every night it turned out to be a server maintenance plan that rebuilt and reorganized indexes every night. While working...

So I was faced with the problem of sending an encrypted email to a group of people. Not really thinking, I responded with sure we can do that no problem. Getting back to my desk I started working on the project to find out that it turns out to be more...

I recently had to setup some web services that used certificates to communicate back and forth and one thing I found is that pretty much every site I found references on was using a file on the file system to access the client certificate. What we wanted...

Ok, so the easiest way (that I know of) to download files in powershell from the internet is to use the .net WebClient. The simple way I started with was the two liner: $client = New-Object "System.Net.WebClient" $client.DownloadFile("http://somesite...

So today I was asked for a way to automate importing files from a file share into a document library.  For this, ACL's were not an issue, however using PS's Get-ACL function can get you that as well to match the insert. Here is what I came up with...

One of the first questions I usually get about SharePoint development is how to make the WebPart development process simpler. My answer to that is use UserControls. There is a very good solution on CodePlex called Smart Parts http://www.codeplex.com/smartpart...