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After working on a problem where the transaction logs for a large database were filling to sizes larger then the actual database every night it turned out to be a server maintenance plan that rebuilt...
View ArticleWeb Parts the Simple Way – Use User Controls
One of the first questions I usually get about SharePoint development is how to make the WebPart development process simpler. My answer to that is use UserControls. There is a very good solution on...
View ArticleImporting a File Share into Document Library via PowerShell
So today I was asked for a way to automate importing files from a file share into a document library. For this, ACL’s were not an issue, however using PS’s Get-ACL function can get you that as well to...
View ArticleDownloading files from the internet in PowerShell (with progress)
Ok, so the easiest way (that I know of) to download files in powershell from the internet is to use the .net WebClient. The simple way I started with was the two liner: $client = New-Object...
View ArticleUsing certificates from the Windows certificate store
I recently had to setup some web services that used certificates to communicate back and forth and one thing I found is that pretty much every site I found references on was using a file on the file...
View ArticleSending Encrypted E-Mails in C#
So I was faced with the problem of sending an encrypted email to a group of people. Not really thinking, I responded with sure we can do that no problem. Getting back to my desk I started working on...
View ArticleSQL Server Index Maintenance
After working on a problem where the transaction logs for a large database were filling to sizes larger then the actual database every night it turned out to be a server maintenance plan that rebuilt...
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