SharePoint 2010 PowerShell: Get the size of each Site Collection in a particular Web Application

Quick Tip -- To get the storage usage of each site collection in a particular web application, use the following command in PowerShell:

Get-SPWebApplication http://webapplicationurl | Get-SPSite -Limit all | select url, @{label="Size in MB";Expression={$_.usage.storage/1MB}} | Sort-Object -Descending -Property "Size in MB" | Format-Table –AutoSize

Have a good day!

User Profile Service Redundancy in SharePoint 2010

For those looking to implement load balancing of the User Profile Service on two application servers within the same SharePoint 2010 farm, while providing failover in case one server goes down or needs to go offline, it’s a fairly easy thing to configure. Simply start the User Profile Service on a second application server in the farm. If the first application server goes down, or if you manually stop the User Profile Service on the first application server, the second application server will assume hosting operations for the User Profile Service. The User Profile Synchronization Service, however, can only be started on one application server within a farm at any given time. Therefore, in the case of a failover to the second application server, the User Profile Synchronization Service must be manually started on the second application server to continue profile synchronization. No biggie really.

Add Quick Launch menu to a Web Part Page in SharePoint 2010

If you want to show the Quick Launch menu (from parent) in a Web Part Page, follow these steps:

1) Open your site in SharePoint Designer 2010.

2) Select the All Files folder (at the bottom of the navigation menu), and then select the document library that holds your web part page(s).

3) Click on the appropriate web part page, and choose to Edit file. Select Advanced Mode in the ribbon to enable editing of the file.

4) Remove the following from your web part page:

 
and
 

 
5) Save the file.

Hide RSS Feed Title in RSS Viewer Web Part

In this blog post, I will show you how to hide that irritating RSS feed title you get when using the RSS Viewer web part in SharePoint 2010, as shown here:



Upon editing the RSS Viewer web part, open the XSL Editor. Under the "RSSMainTemplate" section, comment out the following lines shown here:

Should look good now.

SharePoint 2010 Edition Comparison

It's been a while since I last posted (has it really been over a year?!). So with the recent release of SharePoint 2010, I should have some good stuff posted over the next six months. Particularly, I have a few SharePoint 2010 deployments on my schedule and will be posting lessons learned from each project upon completion. In the meantime, Microsoft has a nice SharePoint 2010 Edition Comparison site now available. As you will see, SharePoint Foundation has some powerful functionality for a free product:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/pages/editions-comparison.aspx