Activating features in bulk on the MySite with PowerShell
I recently came across a client who needed to activate a couple of features on their MySites in batches. Given that they have a significant number of MySites already created we needed to find a way...
View ArticleUsing powershell to set SSP profile properties
I recently put together a powershell script that can be used to update a profile property of all of the users stored in the SharePoint SSP. At NewsGator we use a boolean property field to indicate if...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell and the DirectorySearcher class
I needed to locate the LDAP distinguished name of an individual user account in a remote domain via PowerShell. Assuming your script is running on a box that is part of a domain that has a trust to...
View ArticleEnumerating user profile property fields in SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell
I’ve been working quite a bit with SharePoint 2010 lately and have written a number of PowerShell scripts that I think will be useful to folks. This is the first of these. This script connects to the...
View ArticleDisable email notifications in SharePoint 2010
Out of the box in SharePoint 2010 all users who have a profile are also defaulted to having email notifications set to “on”. This might make sense in a small scale implementation but for my customer...
View ArticleOrganizing lots of pictures
If you’re anything like me you’ve been taking digital pictures for a long time now. You’ve used various strategies and tools for organizing them over the years. You’ve gone through several...
View ArticleOrganizing your music with Powershell
So my wife just swapped her iPhone 4 for a new HTC Titan Windows Phone thanks to the recent Smoked by Windows Phone challenge. The first thing she asked me about is how to get all of her music over...
View ArticleQuickly convert tif files to jpg in bulk using powershell
I was given a CD full of TIF files for a project I’m working on. I needed to get these into the much more reasonable JPG format in order to put them up on a website. I was able to bulk convert this...
View ArticlePowershell one liner for finding lowest latency domain controller
I needed to find a list of all of the domain controllers in a given domain and then ping them to find which had the lowest latency. This is useful in order to find which DC will respond to LDAP...
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