Limit the number of concurrent site upgrades

October 25, 2015 · by · in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

If you are upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 you may wish to limit the number of sites that can be upgraded concurrently.  The example below uses the Set-SPContentDatabase PowerShell cmdlet to set the limit to 5: $var =…

Installing Reporting Services for SharePoint 2013 to support Power View

Installing Reporting Services for SharePoint 2013 to support Power View

October 24, 2015 · by · in Installation, SharePoint 2013

Today I am installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS) to enable the Power View feature in SharePoint 2013.  There are three steps to this process: Install, register and start Reporting Services Report Server Create a Reporting Services Service…

PowerShell script to export a list to a CSV file

October 11, 2015 · by · in Backups, PowerShell, SharePoint 2013, Tips and Tricks

At home I use a SharePoint list as my primary address book (mainly to store addresses for family and friends).  While building a custom backup script in PowerShell I added the following to export my Address Book list to a CSV…