SharePointers

Special thanks to Djamel Chagour and his response to my MSDN thread (which linked to this blog post ) to solve my issue of grabbing solutions from the Solution store so I could drop them on another server. His post is more complex and deals with generating the stsadm commands for a batch deployment. Mine is the dumbed down version that just pulls the files so I can readd them as I need them. Here's the code: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; using System.Xml; using System.Web; namespace Mirant.SharePoint.Administration.WSPDownloader { class Program { static void Main( string [] args) { bool hasErrors = false ; if (args.Length != 1) { Console.WriteLine( "Usage: Company.SharePoint.Administration.WSPDownloader directory...

Months (years?) behind the rest of the world, I've finally decided it's time to get my VMs up to Azure (no more SSD swapping between PC and laptop despite having a easily mountable caddy in my work laptop and this sweet caddy in my PC . As a loyal VirtualBox user I opted for VDI rather than VHD, but now I must convert.  So here's what I did: Uninstall VBox Guest Additions from the VM Shut the VM down (don't save the state). Remove the VDI from the Virtual Media Manager in Virtual box before running the command below Run the following command using Run As Administrator by right-clicking on the command prompt (from the VBox Install directory unless you've set the PATH variable):  VBoxManage clonehd e:\SP2013DEV.vdi  c:\SP2013DEVaz.vhd --format VHD In the above command the first file is the source VDI the second is the destination VHD. Wait for the magic to happen it should take a while since VMs with SP on them are pretty big.  Going from one drive to another...