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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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Microsoft just released SharePoint 2010 Beta 2! Beta 2 will consist of build 14.0.4536.1000. For Beta 1 users only or partners running an earlier version e.g. 14.0.4514.1009 (Beta 2 Escrow), you can upgrade to Beta 2 by installing this
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Note: This post applies to SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2 and Visual Studio Ultimate Beta 2. I ran into two issues today that had me tied up for a few hours so I thought I would share. The first was simple: SPFarm _farm = SPFarm.Local;
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These HOLs are about a month old now, but I wanted to share them for anyone who missed the announcement at SPC. There are 10 Hands On Labs in both C# and Visual Basic for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5
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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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This came up for a recent customer, so thought I would share my solution as many people are not aware of this customization possibility. The solution ultimately solved the problem that feature staplers activate features BEFORE any lists are provisioned
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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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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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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
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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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Last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the Twin Cities SharePoint Camp sponsored by New Horizons. There was a great turnout for this FREE event. If you didn’t make it this time around – be sure to make it in Summer 2009.
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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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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
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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.com
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