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.

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Managing SharePoint 2010 search service application file types

May 31, 2010
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This post is a result of annoying UI vs CLI differences in SharePoint 2010. The central administration indicates that you specify “file types” to include in the content index. These file types are nothing but the file extensions such as PDF, DWG, etc. You generally add these file types when you install additional iFilters for indexing your [...]

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On-demand import of SharePoint 2010 cmdlets within PowerShell ISE

May 4, 2010
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I did not plan to write this post but a few blog posts around using SharePoint 2010 cmdlets within PowerShell ISE made me put my thoughts in to this. Last month, I published a post around using module-sets in PowerShell ISE. The idea was simple. We add a menu item to ISE addons menu and [...]

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Announcing SharePoint 2010 PowerShell scripts & utilities codeplex project

May 3, 2010
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I created this project — SharePoint 2010 PowerShell scripts & utilities, on codeplex last week to start sharing all the miscellaneous scripts I have been using throughout my SharePoint 2010 learning cycle. Most of these scripts require quite a bit of rework as they were never meant for sharing with outside world . I [...]

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SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell annoyances – Part 1: SharePoint backup

April 21, 2010
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Microsoft and SharePoint product teams certainly did a good job by enabling out-of-box PowerShell management of SharePoint. It really provides some great power to IT professionals and administrators managing SharePoint farms. But, in my opinion, this is not the best implementation of PowerShell support. I will dig in to why I feel like that by [...]

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