Category Archive: Powershell

Dec
12

Changing Office 365 Password Policy

      By default your Office 365 password will expire every 90 days or so. This can be annoying. Simple solution is just to set the password policy to never expire passwords. This will also let you reset your password back to your well-remembered old one, so this fix can be run before or …

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Sep
19

Prepare for SPC11 with SharePoint IW Demo

By now, many people have already blogged about the availability of the new SharePoint Information Worker (IW) Demo with Service Pack 1. Here’s the link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27417 There’s about 30 download buttons!! So for anyone that wants an easier way to download all of those links, here’s a PowerShell script that I used (below). It’ll use …

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May
30

Remote Control with Windows PowerShell

  I found this video today by Don Jones featured in Techdays 2011which shows the capabilities of remote powershell so I thought definitely worth a share. About This Video Windows PowerShell includes amazing capabilities to remote control both server and client computers, without using Remote Desktop! Learn how to remotely execute commands on one computer …

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Apr
18

Top 10 mistakes made by SharePoint 2010 administrators

This post was originally published on Benjamin Athawes’ blog on Saturday 16th April 2011. Working mainly on the administration and architecture side of SharePoint, I don’t get to do a lot of development. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as it means that I can be more objective when it comes to deploying solutions to …

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Jan
27

SharePoint & PowerShell 101: Finding Cmdlets

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I recently did a post on Listing all available PowerShell commands in SharePoint 2010. That is all well and good, if you want to manually browse through all of them. But what if you want to search for them?   Get-Command Get-Command is a highly useful cmdlet in PowerShell. Today we are just going to …

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Dec
08

Can you upload more than 100 documents at a time with SharePoint 2010

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 Last month I was asked a question through the comments on the blog “It appears that you can’t upload more than 100 documents, at any one time, to a Document Library, in SharePoint 2010. Is this correct, or is there a way around it?” Well I have never tried this so I thought I would …

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Nov
15

Remote Management of Windows 7 with Windows PowerShell

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 I stumbled across a great video today which I thought I would share with you from the TechNet website by Nicholas Hamawi on the use of remote PowerShell in Windows 7. This is a great intro to the subject and covers the following topics:-    Set trust relationships Establish a remote shell connection Create connection objects …

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Oct
29

Windows PowerShell Basics for IT Professionals

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  I found this video on TechNet edge and thought I would share it with you, as you can probably tell from my previous posts I am very much a PowerShell novice so this video was great for me it was made by Peter Lammer and covers the basics that you need to know including …

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Oct
05

SharePoint 2010 Farm Passphrase Recovery

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We are at the moment in the process of deploying a SharePoint 2010 implementation for a county wide portal, I have already set up the first server in the farm this will be a 5 SharePoint server setup and also mirrored in a redundant data centre. Well today I had one of those OMG moments …

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