PowerGUI Error : Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.1 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime

I’m used to work with PowerGUI script editor for developing Powershell scripts for SharePoint 2010. This time, after updating PowerGUI with version 3.2.0.2237 and running a SharePoint cmdlet, I got this error:

“Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.1 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime."

After investigations, this issue is caused by PowerGUI itself. To fix it, open the ScriptEditor.exe.config file placed in the PowerGUI installation directory. Remove of comment this line:

Restart the script editor and everything works again !

HTTP Error 500.21 - Internal Server Error Handler "PageHandlerFactory-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

I just deployed a brand new .Net 4 website in IIS on my machine and get this error:

It seems that some .Net 4 modules have not been installed properly on this machine…

I managed to fix the issue quickly by running those two commands:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

 

TFS Azure Preview

I’ve been waiting for a TFS Azure Preview invitation code a few days and it finally came to my mailbox. After playing a couple of hours with, my first impressions are more than good ! The cloud features are almost the same as the on premise version. The web portal is friendly and smooth as the upcoming release of TFS. Using the cloud for that kind of usage could be really valuable (availability, safety, on-demand !).

I have not seen communications regarding the future pricing of this Azure feature yet. But I’m pretty sure that it would interest a lot of developers !

If you want to test the preview, you can register on this site: http://tfspreview.com

You will receive an email from the MSFT team in a week giving you an registration code and 5 other codes for your friends.

Enjoy !

How to add SharePoint snapin to Power GUI script editor

1. Open Power GUI script editor

2. Select: Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

3. Now, you can use PowerShell intellisense on SharePoint module !

How to generate a self-signed certificate from IIS

For test purposes, it is sometime useful to generate a dummy certificate on your test environment. You can do that by using different ways:

- Create a certificate request and send it to a trusted Certifcate Autority (verisign, thawte etc.).

- Create a Domain certificate. To do that, you will need to setup a Certificate Autority on your domain.

- Create a self signed certificate. IIS has the ability to generate a had oc certificate on your machine. Note that this certificate will only be known and trusted on your machine. For example, you cannot use it over the web to sign your production website.

Here is the procedure to generate a self-signed certificate on IIS 7.x:

1. run inetmgr command

2. Go to the server level and select Server Certificates

3. On the right panel, click on Create Self-Signed Certificate.

4. specify a frendly name for your certificate

5. {Your certificate is beeing signed by your machine and placed in the personal certificate store on your machine}

Now your certificate can be now used on your machine !

Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC)

Most of the time, developers are working on a server system such as Windows Server 2008 R2. Server operating systems restrict usage exclusively for the deployed roles. By default, internet explorer is clamped and does not provide a full web experience. For example, you cannot download a file from the web.

To fix this annoying issue, go to the server manager and follow those steps:

1. To configure IE ESC back:
2. Close all instances of Internet Explorer.
3. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
4. If a User Account Control dialog box appears, click Continue.
5. Under Security Summary, click Configure IE ESC.
6. Under Administrators, click On (Recommended).
7. Under Users, click On (Recommended).
8. Click OK.
9. To disable IE ESC, click Off for both Administrators and Users, and then click OK

SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates List

This page from technet list the SharePoint 2010 cumulative updates:

SharePoint 2010 - Updates, Cumulative Updates, Patches | TechNet

Visual Studio Performance Testing

This document asset from codeplex gives a complete overview of Visual Studio performance testing capabilities !

Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide - Download: VS Performance Testing Quick Reference V3.6

Enjoy ;-)

Let's try office 365 !

Office 365 is free for beta test here !

Connecting Lync client to OCS 2007 R2

Today, I've installed the brand new Lync client on my machine. But when I tried to connect to an OCS 2007 R2 server, I got an error telling that Lync is not compatible with OCS 2007.

I found the solution on this blog.

I just had to add this key in the registry base:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
Name: DisableServerCheck
Type: DWORD
Value: 1 (00000001)

Enjoy ;-)

Start/Stop a SharePoint 2010 Service Application

Sometimes, it can be useful and more efficient to handle Sharepoint Service applications using Powershell.
The following script can be used for starting or stopping a service application instance.

A Sharepoint Service application is running behind a service application instance. This instance represents the service application on the whole Sharepoint Farm.
Stopping the instance will stop the related service application on all the servers in the farm.

First of all, we need to get all the service instances running on the farm:

Get-SPServiceInstance

From the list, select your service instance GUID and copy it.
For stopping the service instance, you just need now to run the Stop-SPServiceInstance command:

Stop-SPServiceInstance -Identity "YourServiceGUID"

Type "Y" when prompted.

Start-SPServiceInstance can be used using the same manner for starting the service again.

Attach Visual Studio to an application using Powershell

This script can be used to run the Visual Studio just in time debugger for debugging your website. It gets the name of the application pool running the website and then attach the JIT to the w3wp process.

$filter = "*MyWebsite*"

$w3wp = get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "Name='w3wp.exe'"
$prid = $w3wp | where { $_.CommandLine -like $filter }

c:\Windows\System32\vsjitdebugger.exe -p $prid.ProcessId

SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams

This link gives you the list of all of the Sharepoint 2010 technical diagrams !

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

Official Sharing Buttons on Blogger

Today, I tried to add the blogger official share buttons on my blog. Just after adding them to my blog, they were not visible.
This blog gives you the fix to apply to the HTML code of your page:
http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2010/06/official-sharing-buttons-on-blogger.html

Windows PowerShell Tips

Accessing Values in an Array

Byte Conversion

Calculating Text File Statistics

Creating Custom Tables

Displaying Version Properties of a Group Policy Object

Even More Things You Can Do With Arrays

Formatting Dates and Times

Formatting Numbers

Fun Things You Can Do With the Get-ChildItem Cmdlet

Image Mapping API 2.0 Downloads

Modifying Message Colors

Modifying a Read-Write Property Using Get-WMIObject

Reading Text Files

Referencing Variables and Variable Values

Removing Items From Arrays

The String’s the Thing

Three Things You Might Not Know About Windows PowerShell Functions

Using Windows PowerShell “Here-Strings”

Using the Range Operator in Wildcard Queries

What Is (and What Isn’t) in Our Array?

Windows PowerShell Tip: Adding a Simple Menu to a Windows PowerShell Script

Windows PowerShell Tip: Automatic Script Writing Using Get-History

Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating Formatted HTML Output

Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating a Custom Input Box

Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating a Graphical Date Picker

Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating and Modifying Environment Variables

Windows PowerShell Tip: Determining the Size of a Folder

Windows PowerShell Tip: Displaying a Message in the Notification Area

Windows PowerShell Tip: Filtering Collections With Regular Expressions

Windows PowerShell Tip: Finding All the Empty Folders in a Directory Tree

Windows PowerShell Tip: Formatting Numbers and Dates Using the CultureInfo Object

Windows PowerShell Tip: Getting Information About the Logged-On User

Windows PowerShell Tip: Getting Rid of a COM Object (Once and For All)

Windows PowerShell Tip: Listing the TrueType Fonts Installed On Your Computer

Windows PowerShell Tip: Making Progress

Windows PowerShell Tip: More Fun with Dates (and Times)

Windows PowerShell Tip: Multi-Select List Boxes – And More!

Windows PowerShell Tip: Press Any Key to Continue

Windows PowerShell Tip: Running Windows PowerShell Scripts Against Multiple Computers

Windows PowerShell Tip: Running Windows PowerShell Scripts Against Multiple Computers: Part 2

Windows PowerShell Tip: Selecting Items From a List Box

Windows PowerShell Tip: Taking Things (Like File Paths) Literally

Windows PowerShell Tip: Three Things You Might Not Know About Windows PowerShell Functions

Windows PowerShell Tip: Using Calculated Properties

Windows PowerShell Tip: Using Test-Path to Verify the Existence of an Object

Windows PowerShell Tip: Using the Switch Statement

Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With Custom Objects

Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With SIDs

Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With Security Descriptors

Working with Hash Tables

From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692948.aspx

Remove duplicates using Powershell

This is a quick powershell script for removing duplicates files from a folder.
I used it for removing duplicates from my music library.

It is simply listing all the duplicates files from a directory and copy them to a back up folder.

$musicFolder = "c:\MyFolder"
$backupFolder = "c:\Backup"

echo "Get duplicates"
$dupmusics = ls $musicFolder -recurse | Group-Object Length, LastWriteTime | Where { $_.Count -gt 1 }

if($dupmusics.Length -gt 0)
{
echo "Move duplicates"
$dupmusics = $dupmusics | ForEach-Object { $_.Group[1..$_.Group.Count] } | Move-Item -Destination $backupFolder -Verbose
}
else
{
echo "no duplicates found"
}

Get signed Assembly public key token

 This is the command to retrieve the public Token from a signed assembly.

Open Visual Studio command prompt and type:

sn -T myAssembly.dll

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility  Version 3.5.30729.1

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Public key token is d3b94d901eb0200f

An error occurred when verifying security for the message

Yesterday, I got a strange error while connecting to a WCF service.
This issue was caused because the time of my client and the service did not match... I adjusted the time between the service and then it was working again :P