I was digging around for a simple tutorial on how to connect a Silverlight to a SQL database. The link above starts at square one, and works through some fun examples on displaying and updating SQL data.

This was an odd one to crack. For reporting reasons, our team wanted to track the item count and size growth of a Document Library. Sound easy?

if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"}))
{
      Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;
}

$SPsite = Get-SPsite "http://www.sharepointed.com/sites/taco/"

$dataTable = $SPsite.StorageManagementInformation(2,0x11,0,0)
foreach($x in $dataTable.Rows)
{
	if ($x.LeafName -eq "MyTacoLibrary" -and $x.Directory -eq "sites/taco")
		{
			$LibSize = [Math]::Round(($x.Size/1GB),2)
			Write-Host $LibSize
		}
}

Thanks you Jon for guiding this script.

if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"}))
{
      Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;
}

$site = Get-SPsite "http://mysite.sharepointed.com/"
$spWebApp = $site.WebApplication

$log = "c:\test.txt"

foreach($site in $spWebApp.Sites)
{
    $site.url |	Out-File $log -Append
    $site.Dispose()
}

load the powershell snapin.
get the Web App hosting your My Sites.
set a variable to where you want the script to output the results to.
loop through all the sites in the Web App, and output them to your text file.

First I looked at the scope to make sure it was correct.

Scope Rule Type: Property Query

Property Query: urn:content-class:SPSPeople 

Behavior: Include

Next, I looked at the User Profile Service (Central Admin –> Manage Service Applications) or (http://yourCentalAdminURL/_admin/ServiceApplications.aspx).  I wanted to make sure the same account that was crawling all my data had access to this service.   Select the first User Profile Service item, then click on Administrators in the ribbon.  Your Default content access account should be listed here with Retrieve People Data for Search Crawls permissions.

If your Default content access account is not listed in the Administrators list, add the account and give it Retrieve People Data for Search Crawls permissions.

Where I can find my Default content access account?

Central Administration –> Manage service applications (under Application Management) –> click on Search Service Application.  There you should see your System Status web part, and listed will be Default content access account.

The user sent me a link to the Form Library they were working with.  I clicked on link and it took roughly two minutes for the page to open.  Long story short, the user had changed to View to display 2,000 items at a time.

I updated the View to return 50 items, and now “my SharePoint is fast.”

Bad query:

$camlQuery = '<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name="ID" /><Value Type="Text">1624</Value></Eq></Where></Query>'

Good query:

$camlQuery = '<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name="ID" /><Value Type="Text">1624</Value></Eq></Where>'

Removing <query> and </query> from the string fixed the CAML query.

Navigate to the following registry (regedit):

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator

Right-click on Communicator, add a DWORD called EnableAppearOffline (32bit) and give it a value of 1.

Restart Lync and the status should be there.

MicroSoft Lync Appear Offline

After rebooting my farm I wasn’t able to access Central Administration.

Went into IIS and noticed the site was stopped.  When I tried to start it, I was greeted with the following error: The Process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

On the server hosting the site, get to a command prompt and type:  netstat -ano

scroll through the list and find the port that Central Admin is using.  After you find it, make note of the PID (right column).

Now, open task manager, click on the Processes tab.  From the View menu, click on Selected Column… Select PID (Process Identifier).

Sort the PID column in Task Manager, locate the PID that you made note of in the command window.  Kill the process.

Go back to IIS, start the Site (right click on the site, Manage Web Site, Start).

Browse to Central Admin!

To stage this, I created a Document Library called BaseLibrary.  In BaseLibrary I uploaded a single Word document.  After uploading the document, make note of the ID of the document in the Library.  *To get the ID of the document, modify your default View, and add the ID column, click save.*

if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"}))
{
      Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;
}

$site = Get-SPweb "http://sharepointed.com/taco"

$spListFrom = $site.lists["BaseLibrary"]
$iFrom = $spListFrom.GetItemById("1")

$mList=$site.Lists["Shared Documents"]

foreach($f in $mlist.Folders)
 {

$fName=$f.Name

$range = 1..500
 $count = $range.Count
 for($i=0; $i -lt $count; $i++)
 {
 $nName = "$fName$i.docx"
 $nURL = $site.Url+''+$f.Url+"/"+$nName
 $iFrom.CopyTo($nURL)
 }
 }

$site.dispose()

What I’m doing here is referencing the document with the ID of 1, from BaseLibrary.

Loop though all the folders in Shared Documents, in each folder, I’m doing a loop to copy the document into the folder, and create a new name for the document on each loop.

$nName = “$fName$i.docx”

$fname is the name of the folder we are working with.

$i is the count of the loop we are on.  Joining the two variables will create a unique file name.

$range = 1..500

To create more or less documents in each folder, adjust this range.  This example will create 500 documents in each folder.

Why?

I was needing a way to stress test / performance test updating documents in SharePoint.

if(-not(Get-PSSnapin | where { $_.Name -eq "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"}))
{
      Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell;
}

$site = Get-SPweb "http://sharepointed.com/taco/"
$mList = $site.Lists["Shared Documents"]

$range = 1..1000

$count = $range.Count
for($i=0; $i -lt $count; $i++)
 {
 $spFolder = $mList.AddItem("",[Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFileSystemObjectType]::Folder,$i)
 $spFolder.Update()
 }

$site.dispose()

$range can be adjusted to create less or more folders.  If you only wanted to create ten folders, change $range = 1..10

I’m using the incremented value of $i to name the folders. You can setup a another naming convention for the foldering.

In the next post, I will populate the folders with a Word document.