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In one of my previous posts , I walked through how to provision a SharePoint farm using PowerShell. You can also install SharePoint from a CD using PowerShell as well. I use this in my lab at home so I don’t have to attend the installs when I am
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< Update 2009.11.20 Added Initialize-SPResourceSecurity and Install-SPApplicationContent Thanks, Zach > This post will take you down the process of configuring your SharePoint farm while introducing the new administrative functionality shipping
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Windows Management Framework, which includes Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0, has been officially released today. This down-level release is now supported for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows
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For those wishing to get started on PowerShell, here is an excellent free eBook by Dr. Tobias Weltner, PowerShell MVP. http://powershell.com/Mastering-PowerShell.pdf
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One of the great features in PowerShell 2.0 is the ability to extend .NET object types to add additional custom properties and methods. For instance, the type System.String does not have a property called IsANumber that returns whether or not the
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You may have already heard that SharePoint 2010 will ship with a PowerShell provider that contains over 500 cmdlets for you to administer SharePoint. The killer though, is that these commandlets can be executed remotely with PowerShell 2.0 WinRM.
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Here’s a great (FREE) opportunity to attend a day-long workshop completely dedicated to SharePoint. Come learn from developers, IT Pros, consultants, and local companies who have implemented SharePoint and have a story to share. I will be presenting
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I am frequently asked by colleagues and customers for a dump of all of my SharePoint content (presentations, white papers, etc.) While I continue to add files like these to my hard drive in various different locations, it has started to take me
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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
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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:
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It’s very important that anyone working with SharePoint object model be concerned with the appropriate management of memory. Most developers are aware of the need to dispose objects properly, but we some times get sloppy when it comes to things
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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
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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
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I’ve been using PowerShell 1.0 for many things SharePoint lately… including a community project with a collection of useful functions and scripts. (Community Project: PowerShell Pack for SharePoint can be found here ). PowerShell provides
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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
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