Gary LaPointe

Apr
11

Create Many Site Collections via PowerShell

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I had a problem this week where I needed to create many (like 30 or so) site collections in SharePoint 2010. These sites all have similar properties but different names and URLs of course. I also needed a way to remove all the sites I had just created easily. New-SPSite and Remove-SPSite do the job, [...]

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Dec
20

Why so much twitter?

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In previous posts on this blog, particularly a recent one called “Automating your SharePoint Install,” I mentioned several people and included links to their twitter timeline. Here they are again: Brian Lalancette (@brianlala) Todd Klindt (@toddklindt) Joel Oleson (@joeloleson) Gary LaPointe (@glapointe) If you’re involved in SharePoint, you need to be on twitter. This is [...]

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Dec
08

Automating SharePoint Installation

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This article is a re-post of the article I authored for MSSharePointTips which can be found here: MSSharePointTips Article This article primarily applies to SharePoint 2010 (Foundation or Server). For SharePoint 2007, skip to the bottom. What? Automating SharePoint installation means performing a series of steps to setup your SharePoint Farm without user interaction. There [...]

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