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SharePoint Saturday India Online event is back – Call for speakers!

July 10, 2012

We are back with a SharePoint Saturday India (Online) event as we did last year. This is scheduled to happen on August 04th, 2012. The speaker submission for this event is open at the moment.

If you are a SharePoint and willing to share your knowledge with the community, please submit a session proposal here.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook book

November 17, 2011

Packt just announced the availability of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook book by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy. I was one of the tech reviewers of this book. I really enjoyed reviewing this content and learnt quite a few new things on using PowerShell for SharePoint administration tasks.

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Remote install of SharePoint 2010 prerequisites

December 30, 2010

I’ve published a free book on PowerShell 2.0 remoting. You can download it at: Did you ever try installing SharePoint 2010 prerequisites remotely? If so, you would know by now that it is not easy. Essentially because of the Windows update packages in the prerequisites. It is a known issue that Wusa.exe cannot be invoked [...]

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SharePoint Saturday India online – PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 administrators – Slides, Q & A

November 20, 2010

I spoke at SharePoint Saturday India Online event and the topic was “PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Administrators”. It was originally scheduled to happen at 14.45 PM IST but we had move it to 11.00 AM IST as one of the speakers did not join us. This was my first webcast kinda event and felt a bit [...]

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SharePoint Saturday India: Online event on November 20th, 2010

November 10, 2010

SharePoint Saturday India is back. This online event is going to happen on November 20th, 2010. @Alpesh did a great job at getting several speakers for this event and there are going to be some parallel sessions happening this time.

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Book review: PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators

November 2, 2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 includes 500+ PowerShell cmdlets to manage the SharePoint products and features. It could be quite intimidating to even think about so many cmdlets and figuring out where to start. This is where this new book by Niklas Goude and Mattias Karlsson comes handy. This is probably the only book available on this [...]

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Blocking SharePoint 2010 installs on unauthorized computers

September 28, 2010

SharePoint 2010 provides the ability to lock down, track, and even block random installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The SharePoint 2010 setup wizard is designed to check for a registry key on the local system and block the install. If you want to block unauthorized SharePoint 2010 installs in your organization, you can setup [...]

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Install and configure iFilters for SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell & updated PS SP2010 Utils

June 1, 2010
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This is one of the recent additions to my SharePoint 2010 PowerShell scripts & Utilities project on Codeplex. I wrote a generic script cmdlet to take care of iFilter MSI install, make changes to DOCICON.XML, and add the crawl extension to the search service application. This could be useful to those who perform frequent SharePoint [...]

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