One of those things that you find out, forget, and never find back. So its more a post to self;-) [void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication]::Local.IisSettings.get_Item(0).Path.FullName

I need to add some code access security information to a SharePoint solution package manifest file. Given the assembly file we can retrieve the required assembly info, and with some xml magic in PowerShell create some result xml. It is not actually the exact code I use in my solution, but it shows the...

I was having some fun with PowerShell to talks against the SharePoint object model. I needed to know if a SharePoint solution was installed and if it was deployed. I got to the code below. Might be handy for someone to see how easy it is to get info out of SharePoint. And the purpose I need it for? In...

The SharePoint command-line utility stsadm.exe was driving me crazy for the last two days. I'm automating all kind of this from PowerShell scripts, but I got the error "Command line error" while I was absolutely sure that what I was doing was correct. I did stsadm.exe -o deletesolution foobar.wsp . And...

[Update Januari 5, 2008: fixed a small bug, content was always saved in encoding ANSI, resulting in the loss of special characters. Changed the line: Set-Content -Path $destination -value $expandedText to Set-Content -Path $destination -value $expandedText -encoding $Encoding The attached file is updated...