May 10 2012

PowerShell: The Swiss Army knife of all SharePoint tools

Tag: CollaborationMark Jordan @ 11:13 am

In the SharePoint development and administration realm, there are a myriad of tools that can aid in our daily activities. Some might praise SharePoint Designer for its ability to customize an environment beyond SharePoint’s user interface. Others might give kudos to Visual Studio with its innate ability to quickly produce a needed solution, such as a console application or workflow. But the proverbial Swiss Army knife, in my opinion, has to be PowerShell!

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Apr 02 2012

Creating a Custom Inline Function for Use in Nintex Workflows

Tag: Infrastructure,OtherMark Jordan @ 12:51 pm

Nintex Workflow 2010 (and the 2007 version, as well) has the capability to create custom inline functions. Continue reading “Creating a Custom Inline Function for Use in Nintex Workflows”


Dec 15 2011

My Links

Tag: CollaborationMark Jordan @ 1:56 pm

Are you missing the My Links feature from SharePoint 2007? Many have expressed disbelief that Microsoft would deprecate a feature that was used dependably and ritually by so many users. You can see references to some of these expressions at http://sharepoint911.com/blogs and http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/.

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Mar 29 2011

A Trusted Backup Strategy Can Be a Savior

Tag: InfrastructureMark Jordan @ 8:21 am

As a technology consultant, my primary tools are my laptop and my phone. Because the latter is generally a subset of the assets that are contained on my laptop, I tend to disregard its vulnerability.

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