As I continue to work with SharePoint, I continue to find that PowerShell is handy tool. The more I use PowerShell the more powerful I find it to be in general.In this scenario, I was tasked to send a daily email of the events of the day on a given calendar. I realize that this seems counter productive, as the users could easily just look at SharePoint, however I don't call the shots. So, I took my task to heart and after exhausting my ideas someone suggested PowerShell. DING! Why hadn't I thought of that? I guess I still wasn't convinced... [Read More]

There's no two ways about it, SharePoint has not been fun for me. I don't know if it's because it's a monster or if I just don't enjoy dealing with it. What I can tell you is that it seems like there's some type of issue at every corner I turn and every time I try to do something simple it seems to take 2x or 3x the amount of work it seems like it should. With that said, using PowerShell with SharePoint was a blast.While converting data, I was faced with the task of moving over a bunch of... [Read More]

 That is not what I thought when I read the announcement. Off the top of your head, If I asked you what the time would be in a datetime for midnight what would you say?12:00:00...not sure why I say that. It would make more sense as 00:00:00 but you said off the top of my headAnd the confusion begins. The question first came up because a user asked me to start and stop something. Here's what the user responded when I asked the question "What should I set the dates to be?":1/1/2012 12:01 AM1/31/2012 12:00 PMNow, in hindsight, I could have asked... [Read More]