It’s very important for SharePoint administrator to have all actual WSP-files of custom SharePoint solutions. Developers often make new builds and administrator installs it in test environment, then in productive one. All the WSP-files are usually stored in a special place. Read more»
If you are an administrator of several servers, I don’t think you want to execute PowerShell script on each server manually, especially if you have 20 or more servers. Since PowerShell 2.0 you can execute commands on remote computers using PowerShell via WinRM (Windows Remote Management) service. Read more»
Alerts in SharePoint is a powerful tool for users but about a nightmare for administrator. It’s not comfortable for administrator to see user subscribes and manage them. Read more»
PowerShell script to add column to SharePoint list. It’ useful when you want to make changes in your SharePoint list in test area and then to repeat in productive one. Read more»
If you need to audit your SharePoint Farm, detect what SharePoint software is installed in your area or to align versions of test and production areas, I recommend you to use PowerShell. Read more»
Not so long ago I had to add 2 hundred users to SharePoint group. First I wanted to add them partially, but I understood that to do it via PowerShell is faster. Read more»
If you removed a number of SharePoint list items (moved to Recycle Bin), I think you want to clean the Recycle from them. Of course you can remove them manually but it’s not a good idea if you have deleted 10000 records or more (Remove a lot of elements from very large SharePoint Lists). Read more»
Lists in SharePoint is only look like database tables but not they are. For some things they are even better than databases – for common users for example, but for developers and administrators they are often not so good and friendly. Read more»
Once when I started to work over the project which used about 30 SharePoint Lists and their data should be displayed on some interfaces, I decided to use Sandboxed solution. When I started Visual studio and began to write code, everything was fine. No restarting IIS after deploying, I could easily press F5 and not […] Read more»
If you have some site collections but your database grows every day. In MSSQL size of database should be less than 200 Gb. So if your content database size less than 100Gb you can easily use only 1 database – it’s easier to backup and restore it. Read more»
