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My SP2010 PowerShell Expert Cookbook is available in RAW version

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you may know I have been writing my powershell expert cookbook for a while now and now it’s available in RAW (Read As we Write) format. CHeck out details here. As my other books, this one is written in … Continue reading →

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Managing SharePoint 2010 web application setting with PowerShell

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my previous post, we looked at how you can manage site collection quotas and provisioning the template for the quota using PowerShell Some settings can not be set as a quota template but are available out there for you … Continue reading →

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Blocking SharePoint 2010 sandbox solution on the farm

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint 2010, we have a feature allowing users to upload and activate sandbox slutions for their particular site collection. Although sandbox solutions are robust and allow you to specify the resource points you want to allocate to the solution, … Continue reading →

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Provisioning SharePoint 2010 site collection quota template

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you let your admin users create sites for their unique projects, you may run into a risk of running out of disk space. After all, you can’t rely on all of your advanced users to be super diligent about … Continue reading →

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Configure send to connections for SharePoint 2010 Records Center using PowerShell

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint 2010, you can configure a custom set of send-to connections for files to be sent to a records center. If you have few separate record center sites, there is an easy way to provision this setting using PowerShell. … Continue reading →

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Script to provision SharePoint 2010 publishing pages

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In this post, I’d like to share a method of provisioning many publishing pages automatically using a PowerShell script. The scenario where this is handy, is when you need to migrate old company press release, for example, to an archive … Continue reading →

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Use PowerShell to modify SharePoint 2010 search results web part properties

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

As you know, your SharePoint 2010 Search results page is just another publishing page which you can: check out, modify web parts on, and check back in. In this post, I wanted to share an approach for modifying the Core … Continue reading →

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Automatic provisioning of SharePoint 2010 managed metadata structure

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Managed metadata in SharePoint 2010 is a brand new feature allowing you to manage metadata from a centrally defined repository. For example, you may want to use terms in drop down selections on the forms of your site driven by … Continue reading →

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Exporting of SharePoint 2010 BCS models and managing user access

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article, we’ve looked at how you can import a new BCS model into SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell. In this article, I wanted to show you how to export the model and grant security permissions to users on … Continue reading →

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