Ideas that work
Paste In Command Prompt or PowerShell windows you can paste by right-clicking. But not always… Why? Right-click the top bar and select properties. Select the Options tab and make sure the edit option ‘QuickEdit Mode’ is selected. Now the right-click … Read More »
Recently I worked on a SharePoint 2013 VM for development purposes. This cloned VM contained 16 GB of memory which isn’t a lot for a SP2013 environment. To be able to work with the VM at a certain speed the … Read More »
For each webapplication in a farm the account used as System Account can be set . When a user is logged in with this account ‘System Account’ is shown in the welcome menu: And when the user adds or modifies … Read More »
In my previous post ‘PowerShell Export-ModuleMember vs Export keys in manifest‘ I wrote about ways to export various items from a module. Trevor Sullivan read my post and suggested in his comment to analyze the use of wildcards to export … Read More »
In PowerShell there are two ways to export functions, cmdlets, variables and aliases from a script module file for use by the calling context: 1. By using Export-ModuleMember and specify what resources need to be exported like: Export-ModuleMember -Function or … Read More »
There are two variants of ‘for each’ in PowerShell: Foreach statement: iterates over a collection of objects ForEach-Object: obtains its entries from the pipeline At first they both seemed to do the job, but there are some differences. Let’s do … Read More »
Document set versions are slightly different than item versions. Document sets can be managed by a separate ribbon tab called Document Set and group called Manage. To create a version of a document set the action Capture Version in this … Read More »
In PowerShell multiple Write statements are available. The two statements I want to address are Write-Host and Write-Output. What do these two do? Write-Host: Writes customized output to a host Write-Output: Sends the specified objects to the next command in … Read More »
The Developer Dashboard is great to see what’s going on when loading a page in SharePoint 2010. Windows PowerShell is THE application to enable/disable the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010. Here are the commands: $service=[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService.DeveloperDashBoardSettings; $service.DisplayLevel = “On”; $service.Update(); The … Read More »