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Get size of a SharePoint 2010 Database with the SQL Command sp_spaceused

dahancock1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Get the size of a SharePoint 2010 database with the SQL command sp_spaceused:

SharePoint 2010 Backups Woes Wow what a huge DEAL! Our SharePoint 2010 install (2...
SharePoint 2010 PowerShell – List all timer job history a certain time range to CSV file Since we wrote this script it has helped us get...
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Enabling Remote WMI and DCOM by Command Line on Remote Computer

dahancock1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:54:48 +0000

Enabling Remote WMI and DCOM for PowerShell Use
Many cmdlets have a built-in -ComputerName parameter that will allow for remote access without using the new PowerShell remoting. For this to work, your firewall will need to be adjusted on the target machine:
netsh firewall set service type = remoteadmin mode = enable
In addition, some cmdlets (like Get-Service) will need the Remote Registry service to be running on the target side:
Start-Service RemoteRegistry
Set-Service RemoteRegistry -StartupType Automatic

Powershell to Get the count of user objects in Active Directory using LDAP Query $Domain = ‘LDAP://DC=yourdomain;DC=com’ $Root = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $Domain $select =...

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SharePoint 2010 PowerShell – List all timer job history a certain time range to CSV file

dahancock1 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:06:09 +0000

Since we wrote this script it has helped us get info about specific jobs really quickly. You can download this script here: SharePoint 2010 – Get Job History or copy it here:

cls

$test = Get-SPWebApplication "http://intranet/"

$myStartTime = "9/29/2011 12:30:00 AM"

$myStopTime = "9/29/2011 3:30:00 AM"



#GET ALL BETWEEN THAT TIME PERIOD

Write-Host "Fetching all jobs to JobHistoryOutput.csv for $myStartTime - $myStopTime..." -ForeGroundColor Red

$test.JobHistoryEntries | Where-Object {($_.StartTime -gt $myStartTime) -and ($_.StartTime -lt $myStopTime)} | Export-Csv JobHistoryOutput.csv –NoType

Write-Host "Done! Check JobHistoryOutput.csv for info." -ForeGroundColor Green



#GET ALL THAT FAILED BETWEEN THAT TIME PERIOD

Write-Host "Fetching all errors to JobHistoryOutputErrors.csv for $myStartTime - $myStopTime..." -ForeGroundColor Red

$test.JobHistoryEntries | Where-Object {($_.StartTime -gt $myStartTime) -and ($_.StartTime -lt $myStopTime) -and ($_.Status -ne 'Succeeded')} | Export-Csv JobHistoryOutputErrors.csv –NoType

Write-Host "Done! Check JobHistoryOutputErrors.csv for info." -ForeGroundColor Green

Retreiving SharePoint 2010 Jobs Details by Date and Time
1. Log onto your SharePoint 2010 application server with farm admin rights.
2. Run SharePoint Admin Shell.
3. Change the SharePoint application in the script on line 2 (mine was http://intranet). Change the dates and times in the scriptlines 3 and 4.
4. Run the script as shown below:

5. View output from the script:

6. You’ll get two files. C:\JobHistoryOutput.csv is all jobs. C:\JobHistoryOutputErrors.csv is jobs that didn’t get a “Succeeded” status. Sort and filter in excel for the results you want: JobDefinitionId, JobDefinitionTitle, WebApplicationId, WebApplicationName, ServiceId, ServerId, ServerName, Status, StartTime, EndTime, DatabaseName, ErrorMessage

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Powershell to Get the count of user objects in Active Directory using LDAP Query

dahancock1 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:27:57 +0000

$Domain = ‘LDAP://DC=yourdomain;DC=com’
$Root = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $Domain
$select = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher
$select.SearchRoot = $root
$adobj= $select.findall() |? {$_.properties.objectcategory -match “CN=Person”}
$adobj.count

For the $Domain variable change the “yourdomain” string to the name of your domain.

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Missing “Column Ordering” in SharePoint 2010 List Settings

dahancock1 — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:47:52 +0000

If you’re missing the “Column Ordering” setting in your SharePoint 2010 list settings then go to:

List settings -> Advanced Settings -> “Allow Management of Content Types?”

If already yes, change the radio button to ”No” and press “Ok”. Now check for the “Column ordering” link.

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SharePoint 2010 Backups Woes

dahancock1 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:04:32 +0000

Wow what a huge DEAL!

Our SharePoint 2010 install (2 web Win2K8, 1 app Win2K8, and SQL server 2005) is being backed up via SQL backups and TSM system backups today. This is not recommended by Microsoft to be “the option” because SharePoint can’t be put back together from these backups. It would be missing the IIS deployment and configuration, the SharePoint application server installation, and more.
We explored using the Native Microsoft SharePoint 2010 backup tools but:

They cannot be scheduled to run from the GUI. Some fancy powershell would work but…
We didn’t get a full platform level backup to complete successfully when we tried it.
There are not any easy to use granular restore options from backup in a GUI (PowerShell was the option but I didn’t explore).

So we started to evaluate AvePoint’s DocAve for backing up and administering SharePoint but ran into some road blocks:

The database admins highly recommended that we not install any trial software on a production database cluster server. Performing a full platform level backup using DocAve was part of our new software evaluation check off list to but we are unable to complete this test because there is a DocAve Agent service that is required to be installed on the database server.
We were looking at moving the large BLOB content out of the HUGE statements content database using DocAve’s Archiver and then route new files to the SAN via DocAves Extender but these products require the MS 2008 Enterprise remote blob storage feature. We are currently on SQL 2005.

So now we have to upgrade our current production SQL environment to MS 2008 Enterprise, then buy DocAve, and then we can finally back it up. Oh and build a SharePoint test environment on some virtual machines too. WHAT A HEADACHE!

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Publishing MOSS 2007 “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates” to Sharepoint 2010

dahancock1 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:20:50 +0000

The “Application Templates” (the .wsp files) can be directly deployed to SP2010 in the same manner in which you did it in MOSS2007 (“addsolution” then “deploysolution”).

The “Site Templates” (the .stp files) are no longer supported and must be migrated in the form of an actual site. The process for this would be to first create a site based on each of the templates you’ll want to use (in MOSS2007, or should be able to just bring up a quick deployment of WSS 3.0 and migrate it into SP2010 – havent tried though), migrate the site to SP2010, then save the site as a template to add it to the template store within SP2010 (from then on you’ll be able to create more sites from the same template).

For the “Application Templates” download the complete “All Templates” package (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyId=5807B5EF-57A1-47CB-8666-78C1363F127D&hash=U7zPFGJoFxrcdUfx8q5LyWM9C7QgTt9Lz2N1LBkKSJCSHWDA1xGmWvG08XqPxn1%2bH4KlBTCVkFmKjyTTaVP94g%3d%3d), then run a batch file to deploy them all.

The batch file I used is as follows:

Code:
call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "AbsenceVacationSchedule.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ApplicationTemplateCore" -allowgacdeployment -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "BudgetingTrackingMultipleProjects.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\BugDatabase.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "BugDatabase.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\CallCenter.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "CallCenter.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ChangeRequest.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ChangeRequest.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ComplianceProcessSupport.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ComplianceProcessSupport.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ContactsManagement.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ContactsManagement.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\DocumentLibraryReview.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "DocumentLibraryReview.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\EventPlanning.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "EventPlanning.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ExpenseReimbursementApproval.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ExpenseReimbursementApproval.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\HelpDesk.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "HelpDesk.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\InventoryTracking.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "InventoryTracking.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ITTeamWorkspace.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ITTeamWorkspace.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\JobRequisition.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "JobRequisition.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\KnowledgeBase.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "KnowledgeBase.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\LendingLibrary.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "LendingLibrary.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\PhysicalAssetTracking.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "PhysicalAssetTracking.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\ProjectTrackingWorkspace.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "ProjectTrackingWorkspace.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\RoomEquipmentReservations.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "RoomEquipmentReservations.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o addsolution -filename "C:\unpacked\SalesLeadPipeline.wsp" call "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN\stsadm.exe" -o deploysolution -name "SalesLeadPipeline.wsp" -allowgacdeployment -immediate -force

Copy the above into a “DeployTemplates.bat” file, and place all the “.wsp” templates into a folder called “C:\unpacked”.

The above is written for a Sharepoing 2010 deployment, so to make it work for MOSS2007, simply change the reference from the “14″ to “12″, then it will work.

You should then be able to create new sites from each of these templates.

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Fake a schedule using PowerShell jobs with the Start-Sleep cmdlet

dahancock1 — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:29:28 +0000

Here’s one way to fake a schedule using jobs with the Start-Sleep cmdlet. Let’s say I want to start a job at 19:43:00. You could probably pass dates as well, though. Just place your script name/commands instead of the “Executed!” string.

PS U:\bin> Start-Job -Name USCase98765 -ScriptBlock {Start-Sleep -Seconds ([int]((New-TimeSpan -Start (Get-Date) -End (Get-Date -Hour 19 -Minute 43 -Second 0)).TotalSeconds)); ` (Get-Date);"Executed!"}
Id Name State HasMoreData Location Command -- ---- ----- ----------- -------- ------- 3 USCase98765 Running True localhost Start-Sleep -Seconds (... PS U:\bin> Receive-Job -Name USCase98765 Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:43:00 PM Executed!

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Windows 7 Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report

dahancock1 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:26:22 +0000

Finally… a OS power efficiency report for Windows! This can help laptop users determine if a driver is bad or not installed, or if the battery is charging completely.

1. To run click on the start button and type “CMD” in the search bar.

2. Type in the command “powercfg -energy” and press enter.

This process will give you a general report shown is the command prompt and also build a nice html report. In my case it put the html file on the C: drive at C:\energy-report.html.

3. Navigate to the report using Windows Explorer and open the html file with your browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.)

4. The report will show you programs that are consuming CPU time AKA power.

For laptop users testing the battery charge:
Near the bottom of the report is information about CPU utilization, processes, and this little gem (screen shot above) This report can help troubleshoot battery usage and charge capacity. This gives admin’s a great way to decide when a battery should be replaced. If the last full charge is consistently dropping from the design capacity it may be time to replace the battery.

With this report Admins can tweak power profiles to realize the maximum benefits of new power efficient computer systems.

Some more info about energy costs:
A kilowatt-hour means using 1000 watts of electricity for 1 hour. Ten 100-watt light bulbs lit for one hour would equal 1 kilowatt hour, or one 100 watt bulb lit for ten hours would equal 1 kilowatt-hour, costing 10 cents. So if one 100 watt bulb costs 10 cents to run for 10 hours and there are 8760 hours in a year, and you push a few buttons on a calculator (876 x .10), you’ll find that the actual cost is $87.60!

My power is now 11 cents per kilowatt-hour, so the cost is now 876 x .11, = $96.36 per year.

If you plan on leaving that 100 watt bulb on a lot, it is worthwile to buy the compact fluorescent version, that uses about 20 watts for the same brightness. (20 watts for 1 year at 11 cents per kilowatt-hour = $19.27 , or about 20 cents on the dollar)

An electric clothes dryer or water heater can use four to six thousand watts. Fortunately, they only operate for short periods of time. (4000 watts for 1 hour at 10 cents would be 40 cents.)

Cost = rate x energy, which contains these units:
$ = $/kWh x kWh

The average computer tower consumes 400 watts. If you have your computer on for 4 hours a day then you used .4 kilowatt-hours which is about $0.44… That can really add up. About $160.60 per computer per year if you use it for 4 hours a day.

Some large television sets can use several hundred watts of power. So if you’re a couch potato, add it up

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VBScript – Find and replace text in text file

dahancock1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:49:25 +0000

VBS has a great function - replace. Next VBS script lets you replace string  in a text file. Replace works with text compare (case insensitive). Use: 
[cscript|wscript] replace.vbs Find Replacewith File

Find … Required. Substring being searched for.
Replacewith … Required. Replacement substring.
File … Source and destination file for the replacement

Dim FileName, Find, ReplaceWith, FileContents, dFileContents
Find         = WScript.Arguments(0)
ReplaceWith  = WScript.Arguments(1)
FileName     = WScript.Arguments(2)

'Read source text file
FileContents = GetFile(FileName)

'replace all string In the source file
dFileContents = replace(FileContents, Find, ReplaceWith, 1, -1, 1)

'Compare source And result
if dFileContents <> FileContents Then
  'write result If different
  WriteFile FileName, dFileContents

  Wscript.Echo "Replace done."
  If Len(ReplaceWith) <> Len(Find) Then 'Can we count n of replacements?
    Wscript.Echo _
    ( (Len(dFileContents) - Len(FileContents)) / (Len(ReplaceWith)-Len(Find)) ) & _
    " replacements."
  End If
Else
  Wscript.Echo "Searched string Not In the source file"
End If

'Read text file
function GetFile(FileName)
  If FileName<>"" Then
    Dim FS, FileStream
    Set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
      on error resume Next
      Set FileStream = FS.OpenTextFile(FileName)
      GetFile = FileStream.ReadAll
  End If
End Function

'Write string As a text file.
function WriteFile(FileName, Contents)
  Dim OutStream, FS

  on error resume Next
  Set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set OutStream = FS.OpenTextFile(FileName, 2, True)
    OutStream.Write Contents
End Function

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