November, 2013

The yearly Microsoft MVP Global Summit will lift its curtain on Nov 17th in Bellevue, WA.  This year, we have prepared three new apps and many new samples in response to MVPs’ feedbacks last year.  If you are attending this year’s Microsoft MVP Global Summit, you will have the privilege to kiss or bite their development team  

• Sample Browser Windows Phone app – with 6000+ MSDN code samples which will be at your fingertips anytime and anywhere.
• Script Explorer for PowerShell ISE – with 8000+ script sample which will be at your fingertips when you are writing scripts in PowerShell ISE.
• PowerShell checkin policy for TFS – automatically checks your PowerShell script code against best practices of PowerShell.

Interested?  Please open your Schedule Builder for the MVP Summit 2013, and register for the event called “OneCode & OneScript” on Nov 17th.  We look forward to seeing you and learning your feedback.

Script Download: SetSPUserPicture.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Set-PictureUrl-as-default-9e0123ca

This script shows how to Set PictureUrl as default unless another picture is present.

This script will set a default picture for the PictureUrl in a list where all user information are stored .If users don't specify a picture, the default picture will be used.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: 22118.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Backup-SQL-Server-Analysis-37016bec

This PowerShell script will demo how to back up a SSAS database.

Some people asked how to back up a database by PowerShell. And this script will demo how to back up a SSAS database by PowerShell.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: 22205.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Send-a-Warning-Report-of-a-1ad183ae

This script will find senders that have sent large numbers of e-mails, then look for consistent use of same subject and recipient, finally send a warning email to a particular User.

This script is to help Exchange Administrators to detect mail storm.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: 22231.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Security-hardening-for-c425db1d

This PowerShell script shows how to check required ports status in SharePoint 2010.

To help the SharePoint admin, we need to come-up with a script that would check all the ports required by SharePoint and provide an output with details as to which all ports are open or block, along with a line that would describe the need of these ports.

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery

Script Download: 22121.zip
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Check-the-frequency-of-a-26609dc9

This T-SQL script will check the frequency of all the reports visited on the report manager during the latest week, latest month and latest year.

You can use this script for reference when you want to know the frequency of reports visited. 

You can find more All-In-One Script Framework script samples at http://aka.ms/onescriptingallery