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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v1.0 is Available

by Marc 22. July 2010 16:23

Microsoft released earlier this month the first release of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit which includes the following features:

  • Security Configuration Wizard Manifests Files
  • The Load Testing Toolkit
  • The User Profile Replication Engine 2010 (MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010), not supported on SharePoint Foundation
  • The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), not supported on SharePoint Foundation

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More information’s:

Marc

Tags:

Tools | SharePoint

Now in Native x64: Reading an Excel sheet using PowerShell and ADO.Net

by Marc 19. July 2010 09:49

Long ago I blogged about using PowerShell to read out an XLS(X) file using ADO.Net. Until recently, only the x86 version of the ODBC driver was available.

Fortunately, Microsoft recently release a x64 version of the drivers as part of the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable Package. Download link:

Interestingly, while this package is labeled “Office 2010”, the provider's names references “Office 12” (2007) –> this should have be released earlier :)

Marc

Tags:

PowerShell | Scripting and Automation | Office

Get the Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta!

by Marc 13. July 2010 15:33

Tags:

Software Updates | Servicing | Windows

Microsoft to Release IIS Express

by Marc 2. July 2010 13:26

According to Scott Guthrie, MS is about to bring best of both worlds by releasing an “Express” version of Internet Information Server" (IIS).

This would be used as a smooth though rich replacement for Visual Studio’s built-in Web Server or to the very basic one shipped with each recent version of Windows.

Interestingly some see this as a threat for the health of IIS in the enterprise. Personally, I am rather seeing this as an opportunity to better and more easily align Dev and Prod infrastructures and therefore reduce the gap and subsequent failure at release time. Future will tell.

Marc

Tags:

IIS | Windows

Pascal Benois (MSFT PFE) Started Blogging

by Marc 30. June 2010 14:40

Pascal Benois (Belgium-based Microsoft Premier Support Field Engineer) has recently started blogging about SharePoint:

No doubt you can expected from him real-world solutions to real-world issues. He's even capable of resolving cases while listening at Sepultura :)

Have a look at this one, perfectly complementing my older post over TCP Connectivity problems.

Marc

Tags:

General | SharePoint