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…
I go on vacation for a week and Microsoft goes crazy dropping new things in our laps! Just before I left they gave us the gift of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint which was part gift, and part painful testing experiment, but mostly an terrific pile of great new enhancements and features to play with. You can reference my previous articles SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here! & Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here! for all the…
Rob D’Oria, father of StoragePoint, has written a very comprehensive review of the new storage “guidance” from Microsoft with regard to the limits on ContentDB size when using RBSEBS. It is a very long post, but completely worth reading from start to finish. For a peak at what you can expect, here is a direct excerpt from one of my favorite sections: Everyone hold on, here’s the super-hard backup/restore process you have to follow in this brave new world: Backup…
I go on vacation for one week and they try to change the entire strategy on us, eh? When I first started hearing rumbles about the changes announced by the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group via their blog it sounded like the world was completely changed and that all previously known storage strategies can be thrown out the window in favor of using RBS and storing whatever you want in the Content DB! Happily that is not at all what was…
It has almost gone overlooked, but Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are not the only products to get a Service Pack 1 release today. I know that the Office Web Apps are a bolt on to SharePoint 2010 and so they don’t get a whole lot of attention, but from an end user feature enhancement perspective, I am almost more excited about the Office Web Apps SP1 than anything else released today (Office 365 not withstanding). Sourced directly from Microsoft’s…
Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 which is a rollup of all previous Cumulative Updates through April 2011, which means that deploying directly on top of RTM bits supported, as well as number of stability, performance, and security enhancements based upon customer feedback. There is a detailed white paper that about the Service Pack that can be found at this location. CAVEAT: Microsoft strongly recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of…
My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in San Antonio held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency Hill County Resort & Spa. We will be teaching the ITPro Pre-Conference “SharePoint Collaboration Bootcamp” plus presenting three sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot”, “Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You Both!”, and “Wish I’d Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint Insanity Demystified”. All 3 of these sessions promise to be fresh…
One of the most amazing, and little talked about, features of SharePoint 2010 is its new logging database and the power that comes along with it. About 4 months ago I noticed a gap in the market and started talking to 2 friends of mine, David Feldman and Cornelius J. van Dyk, making the statement “I think that this would make for a really neat winforms app.” After some brain storming we decided to take the idea a different direction…
My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in Boston held April 25-27 at the Marriott Long Wharf. We will be presenting two sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot” and “SharePoint Logging – The Undiscovered Country”. Both sessions promise to be fresh and exciting so come out and see us if you’re anywhere in the Boston area during that time. We hope to see you there!
Activating through PowerShell In doing some research I have had some difficultly finding a single good resource for how to turn on the Developer Dashboard using PowerShell and what the parameters are for doing so. Here is what several hours or pouring through numerous resources has turned up, and I am sure it is not 100% complete: Code to turn on the Developer Dashboard This will turn on the icon at the top right hand corner of your masterpage for…