PowerShell Version 3 – Intellisense

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Windows PowerShell 3.0 is now available to download for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and for Windows Server 2008. Windows PowerShell 3.0 comes in the Management Framework 3.0. You can download Windows PowerShell 3.0 from the Microsoft Download Center.  

 

Not going into deep of powershell V3 features, the one most I like initially was intellisense.  Also you can run a single cmdlet with selecting its parameters in the GUI to the right of the powershell ISE window. 

 

Check out the pics. … More to come later posts

 

 

 

Reset SharePoint PassPhrase

Passphrase for SharePoint saves the farm from accidental addition of servers by known or unknown admins. One way its saves but if we does not document it somewhere or lost it then the only way to retreive it is to reset the passphrase

The passphrase resides some where in SharePoint Configuration database encrypted. We need to set a new passphrase using the cmdlet Set-SPPassPhrase. Before we need to pass the new passphrase we need to convert it to secure string.

Follow the steps:

Note: Run these cmdlets on a server which is still part of a server, if the server is disconnected already from the farm then it cannot connect to configuration database to update the passphrase.

Open a sharepoint Management (powershell) Shell

$Pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

It will prompt to enter the passphrase now

Set-SpPassPhrase -PassPhrase $Pass

It will ask you to reenter the passphrase you need to enter the passphrase you already gave it in earlier step.