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• Installing SharePoint 2013 apps with PowerShell

  My PowerShell posts always prove to be the most popular.  I showed all sorts of cool PowerShell tricks in my talk back at SPC12.  One of the things I covered was how to install and manage apps using PowerShell.  Since there is a corporate... Posted Feb 28 2013, 11:00 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2013, Apps

• How to: Perform a SharePoint 2013 site collection upgrade with PowerShell

  At SPC12 , I gave a talk about PowerShell in SharePoint 2013.  In that talk I upgraded a SharePoint 2010 site collection to SharePoint 2013.  I wanted to follow-up with a blog post showing the steps involved.  To begin the process, I have... Posted Feb 04 2013, 05:11 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, SharePoint Upgrade, SharePoint 2013

• How to: Use PowerShell with SharePoint Online Preview

  I recently spoke about PowerShell at SharePoint Conference 2012 ( SPC195 ).  It turns out PowerShell support slipped into SharePoint Online Preview without a lot of people noticing.  In my session at SPC12, I walked users through a lot of common... Posted Nov 29 2012, 07:59 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Office 365 Grid

• Copying Site Collections with PowerShell in SharePoint 2013 Preview

  I’m working on my PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 (SPC195) talk for SPC12 and I find this new cmdlet so useful I thought I would share it immediately.  The cmdlet is Copy-SPSite and it’s easy to use.  Just run it and before you know it, you’ll... Posted Oct 21 2012, 10:44 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Preview

• How to: Seed Search Suggestions in SharePoint 2013 Preview

  I was digging through some new PowerShell cmdlets for one of my talks coming up at SharePoint Conference 2012 (SPC12), and I stumbled upon the new cmdlet Import-SPEnterpriseSearchPopularQueries .  I found this cmdlet to be interesting since it can... Posted Sep 18 2012, 03:17 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Preview

• Adding and Deploying Sandboxed Solutions Using PowerShell

  One of my most popular posts on DotNetMafia.com is my post on using PowerShell to add and deploy SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files).  However, in that post, I never went in detail in deploying sandboxed solutions.  Today, I want to talk... Posted May 21 2012, 09:09 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, Sandboxed Solution

• How to: Make Windows 7 PowerShell look like the SharePoint Management Shell

  I love me some PowerShell.  I use it a lot in the context of SharePoint 2010, but I use it just as much on my own laptop.  If you have been administering and configuring SharePoint enough, you have become accustomed to the shape and size of... Posted May 21 2012, 03:54 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, Windows 7

• Error: Update-SPProfilePhotoStore : Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  I like blogging about errors and their resolutions.  Sometimes the answer is simple, but I think there is a lot of value in posting the details of an error so that users can find answers in the search engines.  After doing a My Sites upgrade... Posted May 02 2012, 05:48 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Error, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• How to: Activate a feature on multiple site collections using PowerShell

  A lot of times we have a need to activate a feature on multiple site collections.  This could be a custom feature to do branding or you may simply be activating publishing on multiple site collections.  PowerShell makes tasks like these easy... Posted Feb 09 2012, 08:40 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Feature, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• Configuring Site Collection Search Settings with PowerShell

  I’m always looking for a way to automate things and configuring the search settings of a site collection is no exception.  I’ve talked about the Search Settings page before and how important it is for configuring contextual search and the scope drop... Posted Dec 21 2011, 10:28 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• How to: Enable Clip Art with PowerPoint Web App SP1

  When SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 came out, I noticed the following line in the release notes regarding Office Web Apps. “Lets you insert clip art in PowerPoint Web App. (By default clip art support is disabled. An administrator can decide to enable... Posted Sep 27 2011, 11:38 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, Office Web Apps

• SharePoint PowerShell Error: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.

  Sometimes when you try to run a SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (PowerShell), you might encounter the error below. The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered. Although, the answer is not obvious given the error... Posted Jul 12 2011, 09:05 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell Error: Failed to communicate with the WCF service

  One day when I wasn’t thinking, I encountered the following error when trying to execute a FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell command such as Get-FASTSearchContentCollection. Get-FASTSearchContentCollection : Failed to communicate with the WCF service... Posted Jun 20 2011, 03:22 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, FAST Search for SharePoint

• An easier way to enable Managed Metadata site columns when using the Blank Site template

  Whenever you use the Blank Site template for a site collection, a lot of supporting features that you may want are not activated.  One of these is the feature for Managed Metadata site columns.  When you pick one, you might see the following... Posted Apr 19 2011, 04:24 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• Activating and Deactivating Features with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

  I was looking at the analytics of the site the other day and I noticed that my post, Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell , currently has the most traffic on the site.  I had always intended to write a follow up post on this, so here it... Posted Jan 04 2011, 03:53 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Feature, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell