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One of my clients recently had an issue where a particularly high profile user (CEO) had their title spelled incorrectly in Active Directory; unfortunately the error wasn’t noticed right away and now, despite changing the information in Active Directory, SharePoint was still showing the wrong title in the People Picker when granting the user rights to a Site Collection.

Last weekend I had a great time at SharePoint Friday/Saturday Denver 2011 – all the folks who helped organize the event did a fantastic job (and I have to say, it was nice this year not being one of the organizers as I was able to just enjoy the event for once which makes me appreciate their efforts even more).

Yesterday I threw up a quick post showing how to reset a SharePoint 2010 theme using a reasonably simple Windows PowerShell script. In that post I promised that I’d convert the script to a cmdlet and make it part of my downloadable extensions.

UPDATE 8/20/2011: I’ve reworked this script and included it as part of my SharePoint 2010 cmdlet downloads. See “Resetting SharePoint 2010 Themes – Part 2, the Reset-SPTheme cmdlet” for details.

I recently published a post detailing the SharePoint 2010 SP1 PowerShell changes and, in that post, I mentioned that I was probably going to detail the API changes. Well, here they are.

As most people know by now, Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 was released to the public today. There’s already been a lot of hype over some of the new capabilities such as the site recycle bin and some folks have documented/demonstrated some of the new PowerShell cmdlets that are available to manage this new feature; but what about all the other new and changed PowerShell cmdlets – there’s a bunch!

Often when I’m working on a project I need to generate a list of all checked out files and provide that to my client just prior to release to production. Sometimes the client will manually inspect each of them and act as they see fit and other times they’ll ask me to just batch publish all of them (for which I use my Publish-SPListItems cmdlet).

I recently did a project where my client needed several calendars provisioned via a Feature Receiver when a particular type of Site Collection was created; they had one primary calendar and they wanted all the other calendars to be overlaid onto the primary one using SharePoint 2010’s Calendar overlay capabilities.

This week was a particularly good week – one that I’ve been waiting to have for a *very* long time. Many who know me know that I’m a huge Boston Bruins fan – I grew up in New Hampshire and have bled black and gold my whole life (even during those late ’90s and early ‘00 years when many were ashamed to admit they were Bruins fans); well this past Wednesday, after 39 years, the Bruins finally brought Lord Stanley’s Cup home to Boston!

Today I got my copy of the May 2011 edition of SharePoint Pro magazine and was pleased to find the “Monitor SharePoint User Profile Changes” article that I co-wrote with my buddy Matthew McDermott!