One of the biggest problems people had with SharePoint Designer 2007 is the inability to run actions in parallel. For instance, what if you wanted to get the approval from 5 users all at the same time? In 2007, you had to issue tasks to those users ...[Read more]

I just re-installed SharePoint Server 2010 and Central Administration kept giving me a 500 IIS error:  "Could not load all ISAPI filters for site 'SHAREPOINT CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION V4'. Therefore site startup aborted."  "Event ID: ...[Read more]

Below is a simple PowerShell script you can use to grant a user or AD group a Full Control policy on a web application. You could use this in scenarios where you're scripting your SharePoint installation, and you want to script your policies as well ...[Read more]

Below is a simple PowerShell script you can use to create a new Web Application and thereafter a new Site Collection in that web app:  Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue" | Out-Null     ...[Read more]

Below is a simple PowerShell script you can use to add a user or AD group to the Farm Administrators group in Central Administration. It's actually the same script you'd use to add a user into ANY SharePoint group, so it's helpful for more than just ...[Read more]

On Saturday, March 20th, I'll be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities conference. My topic title is "Advanced Visual Studio Workflow Techniques for SharePoint" where I'll be pulling out some of the need tricks I've picked up ove ...[Read more]