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Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!

Richard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:36:11 GMT

FINALLY it is released. PowerShell 2.0 is now available in RTM form.

Download today and get all the new WMI features and the new Remoting framework for PowerShell and management. Also don’t forget the BITS commandlets for downloading large files from the internet and from file shares.

Windows PowerShell Blog : Windows Management Framework is here!

Windows PowerShell Blog : WMI Object Identifiers and Keys

Richard — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:31:38 GMT

This is how you can use the “linking” classes in WMI to get the objects in PowerShell without doing a second WMI query.

Windows PowerShell Blog : WMI Object Identifiers and Keys

Kimberly Tripp - SQL Goddess

Richard — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:01:22 GMT

She is really good in SQL and I recommend her blogs and webcasts if you want to understand some of the gotcha’s & optimizations in SQL Server. I learned about her from .NET Rocks back in the day.

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/

Here are some entries specifically for SharePoint

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Sharepoint.aspx

Transaction Log entries

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/Transaction-Log.aspx

Here are some webcasts

http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/KIMBERLY/category/TechNet-Webcasts.aspx

Martin’s Blog » CardSpace InfoCard AuthModule SSO

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:14:04 GMT

This is a cool demonstration of adding CardSpace capabilities to OpenSSO. This something worth looking at so that traditional logins and password can become a thing of the past.

Martin’s Blog » CardSpace InfoCard AuthModule SSO

Mike Jones: self-issued » Information Card Standard Approved!

Richard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:25:50 GMT

This totally snuck under the radar… Congratulations to the teams involved.

Mike Jones: self-issued » Information Card Standard Approved!

Migrate from Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to Office SharePoint Server 2007

Richard — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:01:34 GMT

Migrate from Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 to Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480225.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480227.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint - Accessibility

Richard — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:02:11 GMT

There is a kit for MOSS and WSS that is available so that the sites is fully 508/Accessibility compliant. Most of SharePoint is already compliant, but there are some features that make certain things not compliant. By following the guidelines below you can obtain even better compliance.

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

http://www.mobiusdevelopment.com/dev/Blog.asp?ArticleID=6491572021158461932

http://planetmoss.blogspot.com/2007/09/sharepoint-accessibility.html

http://techtalkpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/building-accessible-sharepoint-sites-part-1/

http://techtalkpt.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/building-accessible-sharepoint-sites-part-2/

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/products/section508.mspx

Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar

Richard — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:00:03 GMT

This is pretty cool if it is true…

I have not heard for sure, but I definitely urged the management to have a “showcase” as well.

Leak: Inside the Microsoft Store With Wall-Sized Screens and the Answers Bar

Windows PowerShell Blog : PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles

Richard — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:48:15 GMT

Using the scope parameter, you can change the scripting levels for the current user only.

PowerShell V2 makes this reality much more transparent through a concept called “Execution Policy Scopes.” In V1, the scopes are as follows. Items on top, if defined, override items below them:

Machine-Wide Group Policy

Current-User Group Policy

Machine-Wide ExecutionPolicy (stored in HKLM)

In V2, the scopes are as follows, with “Process“, ”CurrentUser”, and “LocalMachine” now surfaced as the –Scope parameter to Set-ExecutionPolicy

Machine-Wide Group Policy

Current-User Group Policy

ExecutionPolicy parameter to PowerShell.exe

PSExecutionContext environment variable

Current-User ExecutionPolicy (stored in HKCU)

Machine-Wide ExecutionPolicy (stored in HKLM)

Windows PowerShell Blog : PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles

CodeProject: Asynchronously Execute PowerShell Scripts from C#. Free source code and programming help

Richard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:08:25 GMT

If you need to run PowerShell scripts from another application, here is a way you can do that.

Introduction

My previous article showed how to run PowerShell scripts from C#. That implementation was limited in the sense that it would run scripts synchronously, blocking until the script finished what it was doing. That is fine for short-running scripts, but if you have long-running or even never-ending scripts, you will need asynchronous execution. This article shows just how to do that.

CodeProject: Asynchronously Execute PowerShell Scripts from C#. Free source code and programming help

Daniel Morgan: Microsoft deprecates System.Data.OracleClient in .NET 4.0

Richard — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:21:17 GMT

Daniel makes a good point here… Microsoft has usually done a great job when interoperability is the goal. .NET including the Oracle provider before Oracle really supported it was a big plus for developers and those using oracle databases.

Looking at the comments, losta of developers are not happy about it either. Well we will see where this ends up, but keep it in mind if you are trying to use Oracle, migrating to ODP.NET might be your only option.

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/15/system-data-oracleclient-update.aspx

Daniel Morgan: Microsoft deprecates System.Data.OracleClient in .NET 4.0

Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog : Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 4 Solutions from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; the high jump)

Richard — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:26:15 GMT

Hey, this was me… I was the last entry for doing the charting. Way Cool… Thanks Scripting Guys, it was fun.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog : Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 4 *Solutions* from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; the high jump)

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com

Richard — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:11:33 GMT

Now this is a redesign. It has been out for awhile, but I had not really blogged about it. As you can see SharePoint is a very flexible web platform

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com

Visual Studio will not ship the WiX toolset, contributes only. - RobMensching.com /Blog

Richard — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:53:43 GMT

This is too bad. Understandable, but too bad.

However still I would promote WiX everywhere and to every developer. In fact I spend time fixing people’s scripts every time.

Visual Studio will not ship the WiX toolset, contributes only. - RobMensching.com /Blog

Stefan Goßner : Limitations of STSADM -o export/import related to publishing sites

Richard — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:29:20 GMT

We had a discussion on this topic awhile back and moving sites to the root of a site collection can bring trouble from testing done.

Stefan Goßner : Limitations of STSADM -o export/import related to publishing sites