Since most of you will or will start trying SharePoint 2013 in a Virtual Environment. If your Virtual Machines have an internet connection, you can easily download all the pre-requisites using the SharePoint Prerequisite installer. However, if you are like me, you install your SharePoint in a private domain, therefore not having Internet. So, I made a little script that will let...Read More

During, a recent project I had to create Term Stores automatically by using PowerShell.  In SharePoint you can save TermStores in .csv files and upload them with the GUI, so If it can be done with the GUI, there’s always a way to do it in PowerShell.   After some searches on Google, I found the...Read More

I recently used a PowerShell Script to Deploy a Custom .wsp solution in the Solution Gallery and activate it. However, when running the Install-SPUserSolution command I had this error: Install-SPUserSolution :  Unable to load assembly group. The user assembly group provider threw an exception while trying to provide user assemblies for the specified assembly group.S Inner Exception:...Read More

Here is a little script that lets you configure SharePoint Outgoing Email Settings using Power Shell. #Vlad Catrinescu  www.vladcatrinescu.com$SMTPServer = “192.168.1.20”$EmailAddress = “svcfarm@vlad.loc”$ReplyToEmail = “svcfarm@vlad.loc”Try{ Write-Host -ForegroundColor White ” – Configuring Outgoing Email…” $loadasm = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”) $SPGlobalAdmin = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPGlobalAdmin $SPGlobalAdmin.UpdateMailSettings($SMTPServer, $EmailAddress, $ReplyToEmail, 65001)}Catch{ Write-Host “Failed”} Say Thanks if it helped 🙂