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How to: Activate a feature on multiple site collections using PowerShell

A lot of times we have a need to activate a feature on multiple site collections. This could be a custom feature to do branding or you may simply be activating publishing on multiple site collections. PowerShell makes tasks like these easy. We’ll take what we learned from my original...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-09-2012
How to: Deploy Metadata Navigation without using code

As someone who focuses mostly on ECM and Search, I am a huge fan of the new Metadata Navigation feature on document libraries in SharePoint 2010. It provides a great alternative to folders when it comes to navigating your document libraries. A list administrator can configure Metadata navigation...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-09-2011
Activating and Deactivating Features with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

I was looking at the analytics of the site the other day and I noticed that my post, Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell , currently has the most traffic on the site. I had always intended to write a follow up post on this, so here it is. Today I’m going to talk about how to enable...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 01-04-2011
Deploying an External List via Feature using CAML #sp2010

I’ve been talking a lot about external lists lately as you may know. They are so easy to create with SharePoint Designer, but you wouldn’t really deploy them to production that way would you? Of course not! We need a feature. At first, you might think generating all of that CAML...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-25-2010
Intro to SharePoint 2010 Development: How to Build and Deploy a Web Part

If you are already familiar with SharePoint 2010, you already know how easy it is to build and deploy a web part now. However, this post is for those that don’t keep up with SharePoint as some of us do and may not realize how the development experience has improved so much. My post How to...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-15-2010
Using the PropertyBag element to assign properties to Items in SharePoint 2010

When the NDA dropped, I mentioned how you could use the new PropertyBag element in a feature to write values into the property bag of a site. I already thought that was going to be incredibly useful, but it turns out the power of this new element is even greater than I first realized. At...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-11-2010
Feature Versioning and Upgrades in SharePoint 2010

One new feature in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to version and upgrade features. I haven’t seen a lot of people talking about it yet, so I thought I would take a few minutes to talk about it today. It’s an interesting new feature and I’ll be curious to see how much people use it and when...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 01-04-2010
Writing to the Property Bag using CAML in SP2010

There are a number of feature improvements in SharePoint 2010. They have made many changes which allow you to do more with features when they are activated or upgraded. One of the new features it the ability to write to the property bag. To do this we just make use of the new PropertyBag...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 10-20-2009
Enabling Content Approval on a List using CAML

I’ve always liked the power of CAML because it allows me to create so much in SharePoint without ever having to write a line of code. However, there really isn’t enough examples out there, so I like writing posts like these that focus on doing something very specific with a list. @SPKyle...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 10-08-2009
Quick Tip: Deploying a Data Connections Library using a Feature

If you’re like me at all, you like to see compete examples of how to do things. Yes, I can usually read something and apply what I already know, but sometimes, it is nice to see a fully working example of something, before you try something on your own. Today’s example is how to deploy a...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 10-05-2009

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