Dec
12
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 …
Nov
09
Are you a SharePoint Administrator? Does PowerShell quiver at your mastery of it? If not, join Todd Klindt for his webinar on PowerShell for the SharePoint administrator. He’ll give you some background on how PowerShell works, and then he’ll dive in and show you examples of how you can use PowerShell in your everyday activities …
Sep
19
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 …
May
30
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 …
Apr
18
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 …
Feb
06
Today while watching Todd Klindt’s webcast with Idera, a cool trick was shared to avoid having to always right click and run as administrator. You simply need to right click the icon you have, click the “Advanced” button, and check the “Run as administrator” box. This will keep the setting permanently to make it easier …
Jan
27
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 …
Dec
08
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 …
Nov
15
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 …
