SharePoint Use Cases

In last three years I helped numerous customers to install and configure SharePoint 2010 (2013). New User Profile Service application introduced the ability to easily sync User Profile properties from & to Active Directory. In this article I will explain how you can leverage PowerShell to sync user profile photos from file share to SharePoint [...]

SharePoint User Profiles Service Application has a lot of nice and very useful features but it misses one small but important thing. Customers often want to display all their contacts (from User Profile Store) in a single list, phonebook style. Here is a simple solution how to achieve this with a PowerShell script. The script [...]

One of mine customers wanted to replace their existing phone directory with the SharePoint OOTB user profiles. They already had all the data in the Active Directory and also had pictures for most employees, so SharePoint sounded like an obvious choice. One of the requests was to have search as you type suggestions for people [...]

Last year I wrote a PowerShell chapter for SharePoint 2010 Unleashed. One of the scripts that is available in the book allows you to easily backup SharePoint 2010 site collections. The Backup-SPSite cmdlet is available in SharePoint 2010 OOTB, but we wanted to show our readers you can do more with PowerShell. Therefore this script allows you to: [...]

Last weekend I presented at SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen 2011. Event was a great success and it was my pleasure to speak there for the second time. Copenhagen is such an amazing city! I have delivered two sessions on on InfoPath and one on SharePoint, here are the PowerShell slides: Automating SharePoint 2010 administration tasks with [...]

Configuring PDF related stuff for SharePoint 2010 (and 2007) is very simple, yet annoying and often forgotten SharePoint configuration step. There are nice articles (link, link) to help you configure it but when you do it manually chances are you will misconfigure something. I wrote a simple PowerShell script to automate this, and it will do everything for you [...]

Last year my friend Michael Noel asked me to contribute a chapter for his SharePoint 2010 Unleashed book, and I wrote a chapter on SharePoint 2010 PowerShell automation. As part of that book project we wrote a number of SharePoint PowerShell scripts with two scripts configuring SharePoint 2010 farm and most of the service apps without [...]

In case you have an existing site collection and want to enable language settings (multilingual SharePoint 2010 UI) for all the sites in that site collection, here is a simple PowerShell script to automate that task. It’s going to enable/disable multilingual UI and add a desired language/culture along with it. To execute this script type [...]

Joel recently posted: Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar and you should follow his advice and maintain your farm. While preparing a roll-out for a client I created yet another SharePoint 2010 lab/test farm. Once finished I wanted to check if everything is okey with the farm, but could not wait for hour/day/week [...]

In case you have been playing with SharePoint 2010 IW Demo VM you might bumped into this error: The query could not complete because the following items are not in a PerformancePoint trusted location… The solution for this problem is simple, you just need to add all PerformancePoint locations to the trusted list in PerformancePoint [...]