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Foreword : Huge thanks to Todd Klindt for sending me a sneak preview chapter of his and Shane Young’s new book . Their chapter on Service Applications helped me to work through and figure out why this process was not initially working for me as it is extremely finicky and will fail if the ordering of...

Foreword : This post has been updated as while it did appear to be working successfully was actually not. Huge thanks to Todd Klindt for sending me a sneak preview chapter of his and Shane Young’s new book . Their chapter on Service Applications helped me to work through and figure out why this process...

Moving a Content Database to another Site Collection has never been easier than in PowerShell. Just fire up your PowerShell, add the Snap-In for SharePoint and run Move-SPSite. PS C:\Users\mrhodes> get-help Move-SPSite -full NAME Move-SPSite SYNTAX Move-SPSite [-Identity] <SPSitePipeBind> -DestinationDatabase...

Hello to my two regular readers and people who accidentally clicked this link from twitter! My apologies that it has been so long since my last post. This morning I found a peculiar little quirk of SharePoint 2010 today when trying to make changes to the Managed Accounts on one of my farms. This error...

Lately I have been getting right into Powershell scripting and I have been trying to build an auditing utility which HMC 4.5 Cross Data Store (CrossDS) was supposed to provide. In building this auditing tool, I have built some basic Powershell scripts on the way that may help others understand how to...

After installing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM 2008) into our production environment we decided to try fully utilize the feature of the product to offer our clients a web based portal to login and manage their virtual machines. This all seemed fine in practice until we actually installed...

Sorry for the disgusting lack of posts recently, I have not really come across anything interesting to post about with Sharepoint or CRM, and I have been quite busy working with other products such as Data Protection Manager and Operations Manager. So this update is just a quick one to point out a fantastic...

Heres a quick powershell script to find your ten biggest mailboxes via powershell : Get-MailboxStatistics -server SERVERNAME |sort-object -Property totalitemsize -des |select-object Displayname, ItemCount, totalItemSize -first 10 Just replace SERVERNAME with your server, and away you go.