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What is MaximumFileSize limit set to on all of my Web Apps? Now that I know, how do I change it?

What is MaximumFileSize limit set to on all of my Web Apps? Now that I know, how do I change it?

I ran into an issue today where I needed to quickly pull the MaximumFileSize setting for every web application across my farms.  I found lots of blogs that told me how to change the setting, but none that told me how to pull the information from the farm before I change it. The UI method for this is simple, but cumbersome if you have multiple web apps and multiple farms.  Simply go to Central Administration|Application Management|Manage Web Application and select…

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How to use PowerShell to get quota information in a usable way

How to use PowerShell to get quota information in a usable way

There are many good resources out there about how to create, modify, & set quotas using PowerShell, that isn’t an issue. Zach Rosenfield has a good post on Managing Bulk Site Collection Quotas in PowerShell and there are dozens of others out there who can give you all of the information about making changes to quotas that you want. My problem was how do I tell what a site’s quota template assignment is and how close they are to the…

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How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

Scenario: Using Managed Accounts the way that SharePoint 2010 is designed you allow SharePoint 2010 to manage your password changes automatically for you. Your farm gets into an inconsistent state, or you allow SharePoint 2010 to change your farm admin account and you realize that you cannot start the UPS without knowing the farm account password. What do you do? Resolution: Run the following PowerShell command from the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell as a Farm Administrator: function Bindings() { return…

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What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

Now that SharePoint 2010 is intertwined with PowerShell have you been looking for that cipher that tells you what PowerShell command you can run to do all of the STSADM commands that you know and love from SharePoint 2007 in SharePoint 2010?  I was too!  Here is the list that I have come up with (combined with our good friends at TechNet): PowerShell cmdlets STSADM Commands Enable-SPFeature Activatefeature Enable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate Activateformtemplate New-SPAlternateUrl Addalternatedomain Mount-SPContentDatabase Addcontentdb   New-SPContentDatabase Install-SPDataConnectionFile Adddataconnectionfile New-SPExcelFileLocation Add-ecsfiletrustedlocation…

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