I had a rather big file with 35000 items in it. I wanted to take a phased approach and found a script to split the CSV file based on a number of lines per file. Script Center repository:”http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShell-Split-large-log-6f2c4da0 I tweaked the script a little bit, so only the parameters that are necessary are File …
Issue I have encountered an error in the web export/import routine. The thing is that the feasibility of import seems to depend on the state of the web. I have several subsequent export packages of the same web and say #2 works fine (I can see it extracting the contents of the package and the …
The content migration APIs provide a simple but flexible solution for migrating content between SharePoint Foundation Web sites. You can export the content from a SharePoint site, along with any dependencies (for example, security, roles, versioning, and other metadata), into single or multiple XML-formatted files called content migration packages. On import to the destination Web …
SharePoint makes it pretty easy to assign very granular permissions to various elements of a SharePoint site. The problem is that managing those granular permissions over the long haul can be a pretty daunting task. Sure, you start off with the best of intentions: create groups, assign permissions to groups, put users in groups. But …
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 is one of the new products which supports Windows Powershell commands. Its really easy to do the most tasks you do normally in the Sharepoint Central Administration with Powershell. Microsoft created a Powershell Snapin for Sharepoint 2010, which is called “Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell”. This enables a lot of new Powershell cmdlets for Sharepoint. With …
As you may already know, you can use the “Manage Services on Server” option from Central Administration to centrally start and stop service instances across all SharePoint servers in your farm. An example of this administration page is shown below: The issue with this page is that it can be cumbersome to use if there …
SharePoint 2010 includes the new Get-SPWebTemplate cmdlet for getting a list of site templates from the farm. You can use it by typing the following command (note that I am also sorting the table by template internal name): Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name” This can be quite useful, especially if you want to use PowerShell …