When working with potential new customers we often ask “How large is your SharePoint farm environment?”. More often than not our customers don’t have all the information that is required to scope a proper SysKit SPDocKit or SysKit Insights project we need some of the following information: How many 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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…