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New features are coming fast to Office 365 Groups.  As administrators we have been looking for ways to simplify the management of groups.  This includes functions like adding groups, deleting groups, and adding members to groups.  At Ignite...
I have an upcoming talk at TechEd 2014 and part of it will be spent showing you how you can manage users with PowerShell in SharePoint Online.  I thought, I would give a little preview and show you some of the ways you can manage users.  If...
In case you missed it last week, be sure and check out my guest post on the Hey, Scripting Guy blog .  There, I show you how to create sites, get sites, and delete sites from SharePoint Online using PowerShell and CSOM.  SharePoint Online Management...
TechEd North America 2014 is right around the corner.  I'm proud to be among the few offering SharePoint sessions at the conference.  This year, the conference is in my old neighborhood, Houston, TX.  If you are going to be at the conference...
I’ve been doing some content analysis with PowerShell lately and I thought it would be useful if I could query SharePoint search.  With the addition of Search to the Managed Client Object Model this task is pretty easily.  I have already written...
With SharePoint 2013, Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections can come in quite handy.  They allow you to test what a site will look like once upgraded without affecting the site you just attached.  If there are issues, you can just correct them...
In SharePoint 2013, host-named site collections (HNSC) are all the rage.  SharePoint Online has been using them heavily for some time now and in general, they are the preferred method for creating site collections now with SharePoint 2013. ...
Quite some time ago, I wrote about how to set default column values using C#.  However, I find it useful to work with them using PowerShell quite often.  The reason being, I often use this as a utility to work set default column values on document...
One less publicized change in the April 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 is the ability to change the maximum number of characters indexed of a given file.  By default, SharePoint indexes 512 KB of the body of a document.  Anything after that isn...
My PowerShell posts always prove to be the most popular.  I showed all sorts of cool PowerShell tricks in my talk back at SPC12.  One of the things I covered was how to install and manage apps using PowerShell.  Since there is a corporate...
At SPC12 , I gave a talk about PowerShell in SharePoint 2013.  In that talk I upgraded a SharePoint 2010 site collection to SharePoint 2013.  I wanted to follow-up with a blog post showing the steps involved.  To begin the process, I have...
I recently spoke about PowerShell at SharePoint Conference 2012 ( SPC195 ).  It turns out PowerShell support slipped into SharePoint Online Preview without a lot of people noticing.  In my session at SPC12, I walked users through a lot of common...
I’m working on my PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 (SPC195) talk for SPC12 and I find this new cmdlet so useful I thought I would share it immediately.  The cmdlet is Copy-SPSite and it’s easy to use.  Just run it and before you know it, you’ll...
I was digging through some new PowerShell cmdlets for one of my talks coming up at SharePoint Conference 2012 (SPC12), and I stumbled upon the new cmdlet Import-SPEnterpriseSearchPopularQueries .  I found this cmdlet to be interesting since it can...
One of my most popular posts on DotNetMafia.com is my post on using PowerShell to add and deploy SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files).  However, in that post, I never went in detail in deploying sandboxed solutions.  Today, I want to talk...
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