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It’s been almost a year to the day since I’ve released my SharePoint 2010 cmdlets and, despite many good intentions to get them documented on my blog, things have just fallen by the wayside; this was primarily due to me going out on my own and writing my first book – but now that the book is done and I’ve begun to establish myself as an independent consultant, I believe it’s about time I start blogging about all these hidden cmdlets that I’ve created.

I’m working on an upgrade (database attach) for a client of mine and I ran into something somewhat unexpected with some User Profile properties – properties that used a choice field in 2007 (fields that allowed the administrator to define a list of values that the user could pick from) were migrated to Managed Term Store based fields when upgraded.

If you were at my PowerShell for developers talk at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference last week then you’ll know that I’ve never been all that happy with how I was approaching Farm Solution deployment, as detailed in an earlier post from sometime last year (Deploying SharePoint 2010 Solution Packages Using PowerShell).

During my PowerShell for Developers presentation in London last week I promised to show and demonstrate a script for retrieving Feature activations; unfortunately I ran out of time and was not able to show this script to the degree that I’d intended so I decided to throw together this blog post.

I just got back from London and all I can say is, “Wow!” This was the first time that myself and my wife and daughter have ever been out of the US and we had an absolute blast – we did so much walking that we literally wore our shoes thin – it’s truly an amazing place with incredible history everywhere you turn.

While preparing for my two PowerShell talks that I presented at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference last week in London, I soon discovered that I had way too much content to present.

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged anything useful due to all my writing efforts going to the book that I’ve been working on. However, I’ve recently wrapped up my last chapter for the book so I figured what better time to start focusing on my blog again.

Today I got the great news that the Real World SharePoint 2010 book has finally been released! This is my first ever publication and I’m truly excited to see it finally available.

The past few weeks have been very busy for me as I’ve just finished presenting at two different conferences, and as I don’t typically present at conferences this was kind of a big deal for me.

I just wrapped up a couple of quick days at SPTechCon in Boston and had a great time! I don’t make it to too many conferences so it was great to see old friends again and of course I loved visiting Boston as once upon a time I used to live not too far from Boston and worked in the heart of the Boston financial district for quite some time.