Category Archives: Content Management

Collaboration, Content Management, Featured, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

Modify Permission Levels (using bitwise operators)

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The easiest way to create a new permission level in SharePoint is to copy and modify an existing permission level. For example, you can copy the ‘Contributor’ permission level and remove the ability to delete items by unchecking the corresponding option. SharePoint 2010 even provides a ready-to-use out-of-the-box button to copy existing permission levels.

However, modifying permission levels programmatically is a little bit less obvious as the SPBasePermission enumeration is implemented as a bit flag.

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Content Management, Featured, SharePoint 2010

Periodically upload files to SharePoint using Powershell

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You can use Powershell to upload files to a SharePoint document library. Let’s say some application is generating reports in C:\Reports and you want to periodically upload them to a document library Shared Documents. By sheduling a PowerShell script and uploading all files in a certain directory to SharePoint you can access of all your important reports via SharePoint.

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