Posted by Isaac Blum at 27 January 2010

Category: Business, NewsGator

http://taplynx.com/blog/news-announcements/create-ipad-apps-with-taplynx

  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 22 January 2010

Category: Business, For The Greater Good, Free Help, Microsoft, PowerShell, SharePoint

Tags: , , ,

I will be posting something here REAL soon. Turned a script that was going to take 90 hours into 3 hours!!

  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 21 January 2010

Category: Business, For The Greater Good, Free Help, MOSS 2007, PowerShell, SharePoint

Tags: , , , , , ,

The below links were used to create this script. Thanks

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/01/10/capture-console-screen.aspx

http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Updating+User+Profiles+in+SharePoint+SSP+using+PowerShell

http://blogs.flexnetconsult.co.uk/colinbyrne/PermaLink,guid,a332015d-c5dc-4433-a0f3-247fd37b0b04.aspx

Download the file here

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
[void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.SharePoint") | out-null
[void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.Office.Server.Search") | out-null
[void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.Office.Server") | out-null
 
#################################################################################################################
# Get-ConsoleAsText.ps1
# Thanks to http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/01/10/capture-console-screen.aspx for Get-ConsoleAsText.ps1
# The script captures console screen buffer up to the current cursor position and returns it in plain text format.
#
# Returns: ASCII-encoded string.
#
# Example:
#
# $textFileName = "$env:temp\ConsoleBuffer.txt"
# .\Get-ConsoleAsText | out-file $textFileName -encoding ascii
# $null = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("$textFileName")
#################################################################################################################
function Get-ConsoleAsText{
# Check the host name and exit if the host is not the Windows PowerShell console host.
if ($host.Name -ne 'ConsoleHost')
{
  write-host -ForegroundColor Red "This script runs only in the console host. You cannot run this script in $($host.Name)."
  exit -1
}
 
# Initialize string builder.
$textBuilder = new-object system.text.stringbuilder
 
# Grab the console screen buffer contents using the Host console API.
$bufferWidth = $host.ui.rawui.BufferSize.Width
$bufferHeight = $host.ui.rawui.CursorPosition.Y
$rec = new-object System.Management.Automation.Host.Rectangle 0,0,($bufferWidth - 1),$bufferHeight
$buffer = $host.ui.rawui.GetBufferContents($rec)
 
# Iterate through the lines in the console buffer.
for($i = 0; $i -lt $bufferHeight; $i++)
{
  for($j = 0; $j -lt $bufferWidth; $j++)
  {
    $cell = $buffer[$i,$j]
    $null = $textBuilder.Append($cell.Character)
  }
  $null = $textBuilder.Append("`r`n")
}
return $textBuilder.ToString()
}
 
################################################################
 
# Pause Script
function Pause ($Message="Script Complete. Press any key to continue...")
{
Write-Host -NoNewLine $Message
$null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
Write-Host ""
}
 
################################################################
 
function Get-UserProfileConfigManager([string]$siteUrl)
{
# Need to get a PortalContext object
# as we do not have a HttpContext we need to source one the hard way
$site=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl)
$servercontext=[Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($site)
$site.Dispose() # clean up
 
################################################################
 
# Return the UserProfileConfigManager
new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileConfigmanager($servercontext)
}
function Get-SPProfileManager([string]$siteUrl)
{
# Need to get a PortalContext object
# as we do not have a HttpContext we need to source one the hard way
$site=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteUrl)
$servercontext=[Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($site)
$site.Dispose() # clean up
 
################################################################
 
# Return the UserProfileManager
new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($servercontext)
}
function Get-SPUserProfile([string]$siteUrl, [string] $u)
{
$upm= Get-SPProfileManager([string]$siteUrl)
if ($upm.UserExists($u) -eq $false)
{
    $upm.CreateUserProfile($u)
 
$upm.GetUserProfile($u)
}
 
################################################################
 
# Create function
function Update-UserProfileProperty()
{
	PARAM
	(
		[string] $siteUrl = $( throw "You must provide a Site Collection Url e.g. 'http://moss/'"),
		[string] $userName = $( throw "You must provide a User Name e.g. 'DOMAIN\USERNAME'"),
		[string] $propName = $( throw "You must provide a User Profile Property Name e.g. 'WorkPhone'"),
		[string] $propValue = $( throw "You must provide a User Profile Property Value e.g. '0400 767 022'")
	)
	END
	{
		if ($propValue -eq "NULL" -or $propValue -eq "" -or $propValue -eq "None")
		{
			Write-Host "Property '$propName' is not set ('$propValue')"
		}
		else
		{
			$cm = get-userprofileconfigmanager $siteUrl
			$spm = Get-SPProfileManager $siteUrl
			if ($spm.UserExists($userName))
			{
				$userProfile = $spm.GetUserProfile($userName);
				$tempProp = $spm.Properties.GetPropertyByName($propName);
				if ($tempProp -eq $null)
				{
					throw "User Profile Property '$propName' does not exist!";
				}
				else
				{
					$userProfile[$propName].Value = $propValue;
					$userProfile.Commit();
				}
				write-host -foregroundcolor green "'$propName' User Profile Property updated to '$propValue' for '$userName'"
				Write-Output "'$propName' User Profile Property updated to '$propValue' for '$userName'"
			}
			else
			{
				Write-Host -ForegroundColor red  "User '$userName' does not exist in User Profiles!"
				Write-output "User '$userName' does not exist in User Profiles!";
			}
		}
	}
}
 
################################################################
 
function MySiteProUpdate{
$username = "IB\Admin", "IB\Guest", "IB\PowerShell"
 
# Set MySite URL
$siteUrl = "http://mysites:3000"
 
# Notifies
Write-Host "Working... Please Wait"
Write-Output " "
 
foreach($u in $username){
# Executes command for all users in this script
Write-Output "Executing this command :  Update-UserProfileProperty $siteUrl $u ActiveEmployee true"
Update-UserProfileProperty $siteUrl "$u" "ActiveEmployee" "true"
}
# Dump Console
$textFileName = "C:\IBLogs\ConsoleDump.txt"
Get-ConsoleAsText | out-file $textFileName -encoding ascii
#$null = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start("$textFileName")
pause
}
################################################################
 
MySiteProUpdate | out-File C:\IBLogs\Progress.txt
  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 20 January 2010

Category: Business, NewsGator, Tomoye

Tags: , , ,

  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 31 December 2009

Category: Uncategorized

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
###############################################################################################################
##Deactivate a Feature on all Sites for a web application ###
## http://Blog.IsaacBlum.com ##
###############################################################################################################
###############################################################################################################
 
 
 
#Create function deactivatefeature
function deactivatefeature{
 
## Reference to SharePoint DLL
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
 
## Location of sharepoint STSADM utility program, You may need to change this
$stsadm = "$env:programfiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN\STSADM.EXE"
 
#Ask for WebApp Root url to enumerate
$url = Read-Host "Please enter root url of WebApplication"
 
#Enumerate available features in SharePoint Farm
write-host -foregroundcolor green " Below are the available features in SharePoint Farm"
&stsadm -o scanforfeatures
 
#Ask for Feature Name
Write-Host "Please enter feature name that will be deactivated at all Sites and Sub-Sites of the specified application"
$feature = Read-Host "do not add the \feature.xml. ex: NewsGator.SocialSites.SiteSkin"
 
#Returning info for use in remainder of script
$webapp = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication]::Lookup($url)
 
#List Sites Affected
write-host -foregroundcolor green " The feature will be deactivated on the following Sites:"
foreach ($site in $webapp.Sites) {
#        write-host $webapp.Name
	foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
        write-host $web.URL
		}}
 
##Actvate Feature on all Sites
foreach ($site in $webapp.Sites) {
	foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
    	$sResult = &stsadm -o deactivatefeature -name $feature -url $web.URL -force
		if(($sResult -like "*Operation completed successfully*")){ write-host -foregroundcolor green "Feature Deactivated : "$web.URL}
   		else {
      			Write-Host -ForegroundColor "red" -BackgroundColor "white" "Deactivate of feature '$feature' for" $web.URL "Failed! `n $sResult"
	}
    }
	}
 
}
 
 
 
 
###############################################################################################################
###############################################################################################################
###############################################################################################################
  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 31 December 2009

Category: Uncategorized

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
 
##########################################################
##Actvate a Feature on all Sites for a web application ###
## http://Blog.IsaacBlum.com ##
##########################################################
##########################################################
 
 
#Create function activatefeature
function activatefeature{
 
## Reference to SharePoint DLL
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
 
## Location of sharepoint STSADM utility program, You may need to change this
$stsadm = "$env:programfiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN\STSADM.EXE"
 
#Ask for WebApp Root url to enumerate
$url = Read-Host "Please enter root url of WebApplication"
 
#Enumerate available features in SharePoint Farm
write-host -foregroundcolor green " Below are the available features in SharePoint Farm"
&stsadm -o scanforfeatures
 
#Ask for Feature Name
Write-Host "Please enter feature name that will be activated at all Sites and Sub-Sites of the specified application"
$feature = Read-Host "do not add the \feature.xml. ex: %featurename%"
 
#Returning info for use in remainder of script
$webapp = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication]::Lookup($url)
 
#List Sites Affected
write-host -foregroundcolor green " The feature will be actvated on the following Sites:"
foreach ($site in $webapp.Sites) {
#        write-host $webapp.Name
	foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
        write-host $web.URL
		}}
 
##Actvate Feature on all Sites
foreach ($site in $webapp.Sites) {
	foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
    	$sResult = &stsadm -o activatefeature -name $feature -url $web.URL -force
		if(($sResult -like "*Operation completed successfully*")){ write-host -foregroundcolor green "Feature Actvated : "$web.URL}
   		else {
      			Write-Host -ForegroundColor "red" -BackgroundColor "white" "Activate of feature '$feature' for" $web.URL "Failed! `n $sResult"
	}
    }
	}
}
 
 
 
########
########
########
  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 31 December 2009

Category: Business, For The Greater Good, Free Help, PowerShell

Tags: ,

Add the below code to any PowerShell script to call a pause.

This code is made possible by http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/02/25/pause.aspx

1
2
3
4
5
6
function Pause ($Message="Press any key to continue...")
{
Write-Host -NoNewLine $Message
$null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown")
Write-Host ""
}
  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 23 December 2009

Category: Uncategorized

Tags:

I manly just like the video, not convinced on the Google wave, but I’m sure I’ll come around..

YouTube Preview Image
  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 22 December 2009

Category: Business, For The Greater Good, Microsoft, SharePoint, WSS 3.0

Tags: , , ,

Thanks to http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/02/be-wary-when-removing-or-replacing-the-my-site-link.aspx and http://suguk.org/forums/thread/6898.aspx.

I needed a way of adding a link back to the portal site, when in my MySite. I went to “Personalization site links”. Added a link but every time it would add the http://%yoururl%/default.aspx?MySiteView=1 . Made me crazy. Anyway thanks to the folks that bloged about it first.

  • Share/Bookmark

Posted by Isaac Blum at 14 December 2009

Category: Games, Halo, Personal

Tags: ,

YouTube Preview Image
  • Share/Bookmark
  • Archives

  • Pages

  • Tags

  • More

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes