powershell

Mar 07 2012

Discovering, Activating, and Deactivating Features In A SharePoint Site Collection Using PowerShell

Recently I had to deactivate/activate a hidden feature that was deployed to a SharePoint 2010 Site Collection.   It was deployed as hidden to prevent a critical capability from being turned off accidentally.  Hidden features do not show up on the Manage Site Features page, but they can be displayed using PowerShell. 

I needed to perform the following:
  • List the active features 
  • Deactivate/Activate the feature

List The Active Features

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Jul 10 2009

Cleaning up Visual Studio TestResults with PowerShell

If you write your unit tests using Visual Studio, then you know how quickly those pesky "TestResults" folders can eat up precious disk space over time. Here is a simple, yet effective PowerShell script to seek and destroy them!

Assuming all of your code is collocated in the same parent directory, replace "C:\Projects" with your parent directory.
(get-childitem C:\Projects\* -recurse) | where{$_.name -eq "TestResults"} |% {remove-item $_.fullname -recurse}

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