SharePoint Blog - René Hézser

The WSP listener is now a document library with an event receiver attached. If a new zip file with wsp and wsp.config file is uploaded to this library, the installation starts.

Setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 requires updating the web.config file of three web applications.

This utility allows you to update all 3 configs in a single click. The updater can also be invoked from PowerShell.

Find faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstall them.
Find Feature remainders in Sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, from e.g. forcefully uninstalled Features from farm without deactivating them before, causing errors.
Also, de-/activate Features Farm wide.

Small tool to recover/import Hyper-V machines which were not exported.
This will include snapshots related to the Hyper-V machine.

A project to provide a PowerShell management library for Hyper-V

It does pretty much what it says. Note that a lot of the information available from Hyper-V is only available if Powershell is running with Elevated privilege
At present there are 80 functions in the library, some of these are worker functions which are not expected to be called directly, the others are listed below.

Automated SharePoint 2010 Powershell-based installation script.

The SharePoint Kerberos Buddy provides an intelligent client application that examines a mixed tier SharePoint environment locating commonly misconfigured Kerberos configuration elements. The application can detect errors on SharePoint, SSAS, SSRS, and on the client.

This is a jQuery library which abstracts SharePoint's Web Services and makes them easier to use. It also includes functions which use the various Web Service operations to provide more useful (and cool) capabilities. It works entirely client side and requires no server install.

harePoint Outlook Connector makes it easier for outlook users to upload emails to SP and attach SP documents to an email message . You'll no longer have to save your email to desktop and upload from SP UI or download SP documents to your drive and attach them to your email.

Tool to query FAST for Sharepoint and Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Search. It utilizes the search web services to run your queries so you can test your queries remotely from your local machine. It shows your results, allows you to refine your query (FAST), and page your results.

Search in MOSS, from a programmatic perspective, has come a long way in MOSS, specifically it is more robust (though could still be MORE robust), more bug free and therefore more suited for use as plumbing in applications. I have found it particularly useful to get over some of the scale restrictions SharePoint places on developers, and taken advantage of it to meet the need for aggregation.

Taxomatic is a SharePoint 2010 WSP package which allows you to export your entire taxonomy from the Term Store to an XML file. It also allows you to import the Taxonomy from the XML file into a Term Store on the same or on a different farm.

This SharePoint 2010 solution allow site administrator to define who can or cannot see the SharePoint ribbon.

In few words
With this solution you can on each site define if the ribbon is display or not for :

    * Everyone
    * Anonymous user
    * for one or many specific SharePoint groups

SharePoint 2010 extended migration db attach report is able to parse a Test-SPContentDatabase report and generate and extended version for each issue!

This JavaScript-Solution improves the standard-functionality of SharePoint-Lists. It displays a new Menu-Link in the standard Menu-Toolbar of a SharePoint-List (which contains addresses / coordinates). By clicking this link Google-Maps will be displayed under the SharePoint-List.