by Nik Charlebois
Yesterday I was in Montréal, which is about a 2 hours and a half drive from my place. I was down in “La belle province” to give a talk to the Montréal .NET User group (in French) on how PowerShell is an invaluable tool for every developer to have in their back pocket. The talk lasted […]
Read More My Talk at the Montréal .NET User GroupAs you guys know, SharePoint 2010 requires PowerShell 2.0 in order to leverage the Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell snap in. For most of us, working with recent versions of Windows Server such as Windows Server 2012 R2 with Update 1, PowerShell version 4.0 is the default version installed which causes conflicts with SharePoint 2010. Now if you wish […]
Read More All About PowerShell VersionsAs I explained in multiple blog posts in the past, every second tuesday of the month, whenever Microsoft releases their SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Updates, I go ahead and install them on my dev environments. The first thing I do afterward is run a custom PowerShell script I have developped myself, get information about the various […]
Read More Master PowerShell Script to Check Changes in SharePointThis morning I decided to play a bit with the various PowerShell cmdlets that are available in SharePoint 2013 and that allow users to interact with the ULS logs. This blog post aims at providing an explaination of each of the cmdlets, and give concrete examples as to when you could potential use them in […]
Read More All Lights on SharePoint ULS Logs with PowerShellWhile this article doesn’t apply directly for SharePoint admins, it is targeting any users who are in charge of maintaining an IIS server and who wish to use PowerShell to monitor their servers. The processed associated with the various application pools defined in IIS are called “w3wp”. For the scope of this example, we will […]
Read More Monitoring IIS with PowerShell