This post is going to discuss how to perform a bulk file copy from a folder on the file system to a SharePoint document library. Along with this blog post, I will also provide a downloadable script, which can be modified to work in your environment. As...

This post is going to discuss how to perform a bulk file copy from a SharePoint library to a folder on the file system. Along with this blog post, I will also provide a downloadable script, which can be modified to work in your environment. As we are...

This post is going to discuss copying SharePoint list items between site collections using PowerShell. Similar to other "How to with PowerShell" blog posts that I have written, I'm also going to provide you with a downloadable script. The sample script...

This post is going to talk about how to resolve the 'Object Reference not set to an instance of an object' message you may run into when you perform a search from a SharePoint site. This is something you may run into most often when setting up a small...

This post is going to talk about how to create claims-based web applications in SharePoint 2013. This is actually something else that I ran into when I was configuring my own lab environment, and everybody will run into this at one point or another in...

In this post, I'm going to talk about why and how to configure your Maximum Degree of Parallelism on your SQL database instance. The reason I'm explaining this now is because of something I ran into while setting up my first SharePoint Server 2013 RTM...

This post is going to discuss how to determine where a user has been granted access to your SharePoint environment. The script I provide is scoped to an individual web application and searches for all users based on their domain. I'll explain why I did...

This post is going to discuss an issue I ran into where certain links in a links list can cause Mobile views to fail to render. This was actually encountered when using Domino URL Commands, specifically the ?OpenDocument URL command in my case. When you...

This post is going to discuss how to fix navigational links after relocating a site collection within the same web application. Relocating a site collection to a new URL is a relatively common task. One reason you may relocate a site collection is if...

This post is going to discuss user profile synchronization, and how to update user profile information for users determined not to be active in SharePoint Server 2010. First we'll discuss what happens during the various phases of user profile synchronization...

This post talks about creating SharePoint web applications with PowerShell. Though the concept is pretty simple, there are always a few things that I forget to do when I'm in a hurry – like adding the object cache accounts to my web application...

Some of you may have noticed… but I haven't posted in quite some time. I actually have a few really exciting reasons for that. The first, and probably most exciting reason for that is that I've upgraded my work laptop to Windows 8. I've moved...

This topic is going to discuss creating a new user profile service application in SharePoint Server 2010 using PowerShell. In the process, I hope to provide some guidance on how to avoid some common pitfalls with setting up the user profile service application...

This topic is going to discuss how to stop all instances of the "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Incoming E-Mail" service in a SharePoint Server 2010 farm. The sample script I'm providing does not require any parameters. It simply queries the farm to...

This blog post describes how to generate a report of all Object Cache User Accounts for all web applications using PowerShell.  The sample script I’m providing accepts only one parameter, which defines the logging directory for the Object Cache Report...

This blog post describes how to generate a report of all web templates used in all webs. The sample script I'm providing is scoped to an individual web application, however this could easily be expanded in scope to include all web applications. Background...

This post talks about how to recover passwords for managed SharePoint accounts. This can also serve as a lesson for anybody who owns a SharePoint sever: Be careful of who you let sit at your console. It's also a great testament as to why automatic password...

Creating and Joining SharePoint 2010 Farms using PowerShell. This is something anybody working with SharePoint quickly learns to do. Some of us do it a few times a year, others do it a few times a day. This can be a pretty time consuming process, and...

In this post, I just want to take a few minutes to talk about how easy it is to install SharePoint Server 2010 binaries on a server using PowerShell. There are really only a few things that you need to know when you're considering installing SharePoint...

How to use a VBScript to update the ExtensionAttribute1 property in Active Directory and use that value to display user profile pictures in MySites. Background I was recently engaged with a customer who wanted to populate SharePoint user profile...

      This Script is used primarily to export web application policies to a file.  It basically takes one argument ($LoggingDirectory), which I have set in my script by default to C:\ExportPolicies.  You will probably want...

Recently, I was doing some user migration work in a SharePoint 2010 environment and I ran into something pretty interesting.  The important details of this work are as follows: Two separate domains exist, one is production and one is test Both domains...

Hey everyone, First of all, I would like to thank Mike Watson for his encouragement and help in joining the SharePoint blogging community. I initially tried to get out of it, stating that I simply didn't have time for this type of activity in my daily...