The PowerShell script below extracts one file from zip-archive which contains several files. I use code like this to get files with financial references from zip-archives and update SharePoint lists from them. So there's a lot of things where this sctipt can be used. (read more...)

Today I was surprised to see duplicated records in SharePoint list which I imported and updated from XML-files. So I started to find a solution to find duplicated records, see them and delete. (read more...)

While creating a test SharePoint 2010 Farm I have installed all the software, solution, attached content database and wanted to see the result being on one of front-end servers, sp10wfe1. Test portal URL is http://sp10. So I entered URL in browser http://sp10 and wanted to see a site. Browser asked me about login and password, I entered them once, twice. On the third try it just show empty window. (read more...)

Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent for "Truncate" in SharePoint Lists. It’s not very good. If your list has more than 1000 items and you need to load only new data to list, you need to remove all existing items and to add new ones. This task is easy to code but not very fast to execute. (read more...)

SharePoint portal in active company grows like an anthill. Setting limits of SharePoint sites can protect from problems with disk spaces, but it makes more users requests that not all the administrators like. So I think a good tone not to set limits on SharePoint sites. (read more...)

If you have a SharePoint Farm and you need to update only one file, for example, in LAYOUTS dir (c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\...), there’s no need to go to every server and copy file.

Using PowerShell and some strings of code below you can easily do it. (read more...)

Using PowerShell it's rather easy to find information list. In messages about denied access (especially in custom SharePoint solutions) you can see in URL ID of denided list.

To find-out where it is you can using this script:  (read more...)

In SharePoint site you can see usually a lot of groups. Sometimes administrator gets a task to add user to several groups. If it’s 3-5 groups you can do it manually, but if you need to add user to 30 groups? I’m too lazy to do it manually and too smart not do it at all. (read more...)

While migration system and its data to SharePoint application there was a task to save logs of change from old system data. Some authors of changes have already retired - some of them are disabled in Active Directory, others – deleted at all. (read more...)

Today I wanted to execute PowerShell ISE on one of SharePoint Server, but I couldn’t find it. I searched for it but on this server I haven’t installed it. I have already forgotten how to add PowerShell ISE to Windows Server 2008R2. It’s not included in default settings because PowerShell ISE is not necessary for Windows Server. And I think it’s true. (read more...)