Tag: powershell
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Understanding the size of your SharePoint environment
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 (Production/Dev/QA/Test/…) farms there are in…
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Use Case: Export User Profiles to a SharePoint list – phonebook style
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 a PowerShell script. The script…
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Backup SharePoint 2010 site collections with PowerShell, send alerts and much more
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 this script allows you to:…