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SharePoint 2010

Powershell: Efficiently empty large SharePoint lists

Max Melcher

2 minute read

Previously I had a little console app to efficiently empty large SharePoint lists. Today I converted it to powershell. SharePoint Online? Read this: Efficiently empty a large Sharepoint Online List Compared to the simple item by item delete with item.Delete() its 30 times faster; on my dev machine it deletes ~30 items per second. It works for SharePoint 2010 and should for 2013 (not tested, yet). Script param($weburl,$listname) if ($weburl -eq $null -or $listname -eq $null) { write-host -foregroundcolor red "

FAST for SharePoint 2010 – Cumulative Update August 2012

Max Melcher

2 minute read

The Cumulative Update August 2012 for FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 is out for a while now – seems like nobody has tried this one yet. Or quality control has happened… Updating FAST Search When you install a service pack or a cumulative update for FAST you have to run the setup and then you have to start a FAST powershell and start “psconfig –action p” – otherwise your search won’t work because SAM Worker process is dead.

Chocolatey: Created two new SharePoint “Helpers” for lazy developers

Max Melcher

1 minute read

I mentioned Chocolatey and Powershell quite often in the last time, today I created two little helpers and uploaded them to the chocolatey gallery. The two super-awesome (and simple) packages called SharePoint.HiveShortcut.Desktop and SharePoint.HiveShortCut.Explorer - and the name indicates it, they create shortcuts to the hive folder. I could just upload the two lines of powershell on this blog, but I totally like the Chocolatey approach - makes it easy for everyone.