February 2014

Running Powershell CMDLET and Permissions

This question comes up quite often. What permissions does a user need to execute a command in the SharePoint 2010 Shell?

Short answer is you will need SharePoint_Shell_Access access.

To give user SharePoint_Shell_Access access run the following command

Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName [USERNAME] -Database [DBNAME]

-Database switch is optional and if the database is not specified the configuration database is used.

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607596(v=office.15).aspx

SharePoint Saturday Albany – 2014

On February 1st 2014, I presented at, first ever, SharePoint Saturday Albany 2014.

I presented a session in the developer track on Creating SharePoint 2013 workflow using Visual Studio 2012 (my signature session :)). It was a very well organized event in terms of planning, venue, food and prizes.

I would like to thank everyone who attended my session and special thanks to who filled the evals. Please find my presentation slides below.

SharePoint Saturday Albany 2014 – Workflow

Kudos to all the organizers, sponsors and volunteers for successful event!!!