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As posted by Eric Ligman (Microsoft Sales Excellence Program Manager) https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx?Redirected=true [Below is a copy of Eric’s post] Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second …

Following on this forum post, and this blog post, I wanted to be able to undeclare a specific record.  In my case, I wanted to undeclare a record by “ID”, but you could really do this by any (unique enough) attribute of a record. The code I used to do this was essentially as follows. …

I began working on a new Office 365 site I had just created, and wanted to use Visual Studio to add an app to the site (using the Visual Studio deployment mechanism).  Unfortunately, I ran into the following error when I tried to run a “deploy” of the app. “Sideloading of apps is not enabled …

To enable the developer dashboard in 2013 is fairly simply, so long as you’re willing to delve into PowerShell.  The developer dashboard toggle in SharePoint 2013 – This is OFF by default in your farm, you will NOT see this unless you turn on the developer dashboard at the farm level.   The developer dashboard …

I ran into exactly this issue as described by the post below. http://blog.mwiedemeyer.de/post/2012/10/11/Search-Host-Controller-Service-in-Starting-state On the "Services on Server" page, the "Search Host Controller Service" showed the status "Starting". Basically, running the following PowerShell as the Farm Admin Account (run as administrator in PowerShell) solves the issue. [sourcecode language=”powershell”] $acl = Get-Acl HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName $person = [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount] …

This is a tip from PowerShell.com.  I’ve slightly changed the text and title to make the boss man smile every time he reads this post.  Displaying Balloon Tip Let’s assume your script wants to share status information via a balloon message in the system tray area. Here is a sample: [sourcecode language=”powershell”] [system.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(‘System.Windows.Forms’) | Out-Null …

I was recently asked to delete an orphaned meeting workspace for a client.  I couldn’t find anyone who’d done this before on the old Google box on the internet machine, so I decided to write something for myself, using PowerShell. I did this by using the following PowerShell script (using the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell …

We recently needed to create a PowerShell script to log to the event viewer and reboot the machine on a schedule.  This is what we came up with. The PowerShell $evt=new-object System.Diagnostics.EventLog("Application") $evt.Source="itgroove Scheduled Reboot" $infoevent=[System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType]::Information $vdate=Get-Date $val="itgroove Scheduled Reboot Event at: ["+$vdate+"]" $evt.WriteEntry($val,$infoevent,70) Restart-Computer –Force You simply put this into a file (such as …

This is copied from a daily email I get from powershell.com Getting Windows Product Key Ever wanted to read out the Windows license key? In the Windows Registry, this key is present, but it is stored as a digital ID. To convert it back to the license key used to originally license the product, try …

I found a really simple one liner PowerShell that will tell you which site collections are in which content databases. Just copy this line (verbatim – no changes necessary) to a SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and voila! Get-SPContentDatabase | %{Write-Output "- $($_.Name)”; foreach($site in $_.sites){write-Output $site.url}} The reference article is below. http://sharepointrelated.com/2012/03/09/get-site-collections-per-content-database-one-liner/