Once, after viewing a SharePoint 2010 document library in Windows Explorer, I ran a net use and saw that Windows 7 had stored the credentials of my SSL-secured SharePoint intranet server. It took a bit of fiddling, but I eventually found you can, in fact, map a secure network drive using the command line:

net use W: …

I started on a new client site last week and my first task was immediately clear: I had to remove the Mixed Content Security prompt on the encrypted SharePoint intranet's front page. Firebug showed that my browser was making calls to feeds.feedburner.com even though the RSS feed was an entirely different address at …

Below is a formula for a quick and dirty autonumber for lists in SharePoint. There are a variety of ways to generate this field. Some solutions use workflow or external lists, but I prefer this method because of its simplicity.

Note: Because this solution depends on the record's ID column, it generates the autonumber …

The free tool SharePoint Manager 2010 is super useful. Imagine a centralized place to look at everything on the server level from Content Type usage to running jobs and IIS setting. Check it: …

I recently wrote a PowerShell script which copied documents from a filter to my local hard drive. I chose PowerShell for this task because it was one of the few programs actually allowed on my ultra locked-down workstation (and 'cuz I love it.)

Because I only wanted specific types of files, I gathered the list of …

There's a bit of a debate on how best to update your DNS resolver on Mac OS X when connecting to an OpenVPN Server. For whatever reason, even if use DHCP on the VPN server, OS X won't use the assigned DNS server(s). It's been recommended to use scutil, but the scripts are crazy long and I've read the resolver order …

This is a bit more complex than it should be; I was hoping networksetup would make this easier but, alas. Using netstat -nr appears to be the best way to find your gateway from the command line:

netstat -nr | grep '^default' | awk '{ print $2 }'

If you haven't played around with networksetup, I recommend checking out …

Brandon had this in some of his maintenance plan code and I found myself using it a bit so I thought I'd blog about it. Here is a simple script that reads a file (C:\scripts\maintenanceplans\$sqlversion\template.dtsx), replaces certain placeholders (in this case, [SERVERNAME] and [BACKUPPATH]), then writes a new file …

Someone awesome sent me the code to an iPhone app that he created for RealCajunRecipes.com. I unzipped the file, and opened the project in XCode 4.2. I immediately noticed the upper left hand drop down (what's that called anyway?) said "Base SDK Missing." So I went to all the usual places to change the SDK, I …

Here is a script that will batch import Models, create associated ECT's, and set permissions for users and admins. Please modify the variables as needed.

# script from netnerds.net # Make sure the namespace is the same as the namespace in your exported bdcm files # My $siteURL happens to be the same as my $namespace. …