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oisin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:52:39 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2007

January 31, 2008

I've just started a big contract with MOSS 2007. Expect some movement finally on the wss3/sps3 bits in the near future. I'll be posting to my blog with progress reports.

October 24, 2007

It appears that in some environments, it's impossible to mount local instances. I'm investigating the problem.

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 RTM only. Please ensure you are not running a beta version; you should have a System.Management.Automation version 1.0.0.0 in your GAC if you are running the RTM version of PowerShell.

What is it?

A full PowerShell provider for exposing WSS/SPS 2003 (support for 2007 coming) as a filesystem. Administer your SharePoint installation with familiar copy/move/rename/delete and new-item metaphors. Move users between roles, copy users between webs; use the full power of the shell to script away the pain of GUI based mass-management.

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:43:48 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

January 31, 2008

I've just started a big contract with MOSS 2007. Expect some movement finally on the wss3/sps3 bits in the near future. I'll be posting to my blog with progress reports.

October 24, 2007

It appears that in some environments, it's impossible to mount local instances. I'm investigating the problem.

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:42:43 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

January 31, 2008

I've just started a big contract with MOSS 2007. Expect some movement finally on the wss3/sps3 in the near future.

October 24, 2007

It appears that in some environments, it's impossible to mount local instances. I'm investigating the problem.

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:24:50 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

October 24, 2007

It appears that in some environments, it's impossible to mount local instances. I'm investigating the problem.

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:24:38 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

October 24, 2007

It appears that in some environments, it's impossible to mount local instances. I'm investigating the problem.

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:02 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

Features

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:27:48 GMT

Current Release 0.61 Beta August 26, 2005

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available. Root is URL format again.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://localserver[:port]/[site/name]
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:50:52 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta August 25, 2005

Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint server/sites/web
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:50:45 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta August 25, 2005

!!!Glitches in 0.60 fixed, Binaries now available.

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 RTM only. Please ensure you are not running a beta version; you should have a System.Management.Automation version 1.0.0.0 in your GAC if you are running the RTM version of PowerShell.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint server/sites/web
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:50:18 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta

August 25, 2005

Glitches in 0.60 fixes, Binaries now available.

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 RTM only. Please ensure you are not running a beta version; you should have a System.Management.Automation version 1.0.0.0 in your GAC if you are running the RTM version of PowerShell.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint server/sites/web
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:48:41 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta

August 25, 2005

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:45:54 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta

update aug 18, 2007: slight problem in 0.60 build ; removed temporarily.

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 RTM only. Please ensure you are not running a beta version; you should have a System.Management.Automation version 1.0.0.0 in your GAC if you are running the RTM version of PowerShell.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:47:40 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:47:06 GMT

Current Release 0.60 Beta

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Manipulation of SPS 2003 is very flakey due to the fact that SPS 2003 itself is not supported with .NET 2.0, which of course powershell uses. However, I have been able to manipulate WSS sites under a portal instance without much problem.

There are also some nasty Memory Leaks -- mainly SPWeb objects hanging around -- at the moment due to the way the root SPSite is cached in the current drive. Changes are on the way to implement a weakreference style cache to eliminate these problems. Creating the root SPSite on every request is just too slow to abandon the current model completely. This is an alpha release after all ;)

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:40:44 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

UPDATE 20070702: license changed from BSD to LGPL.

(but 0.60 is getting close!)

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 RTM only. Please ensure you are not running a beta version; you should have a System.Management.Automation version 1.0.0.0 in your GAC if you are running the RTM version of PowerShell.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:28:19 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:06:38 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:03:32 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 only.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:03:16 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 only.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink

UPDATED WIKI: Home

oisin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:03:04 GMT

Current Release 0.54 Alpha

For Windows PowerShell v1.0 only.

What is it?

Requirements

At the moment, you can only install this onto a machine that has a local installation of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS) and/or SharePoint Portal Server 2003. So, you need:

WSS 2.0 and/or SPS 2003 (SP2 recommended)
Windows Powershell 1.0

Known Issues

Installation

First ensure you have the .net 2.0 sdk in your path, extract the release zip into an empty directory, then:

PS > InstallUtil Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint.dll
...
PS > Add-PSSnapin Nivot.PowerShell.SharePoint
PS > New-PSDrive wss SharePoint http://mywss/
PS > cd wss:
PS wss:\>

After that, you can read about some of the Features.

Author

Oisin Grehan is from Dublin, Ireland, now living in Montreal. Author's blog at Nivot Ink