VM Snapshots and SharePoint 2010

The question of using snapshots with SharePoint came up at a customer today. They aren’t really recommended because to get it right you’d have to be able to roll every machine – SharePoint and SQL databases – back to the same point in time.    But I started to  wonder if that was really true.  I double checked, and the official guidance confirms:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621103.aspx#snapshot

The only useful scenario would probably be a single server environment (ie a dev VM), or possibly a 1 SP 1 SQL environment. If you _do_ do snapshots, Microsoft recommends shutting down the VM first.  Otherwise SharePoint timer jobs could be  in the middle of doing something at 1PM and then “wake up” from a rollback suddenly at 4PM the next day.  You’d be confused too. 

Get all User Profiles by Using SharePoint PowerShell

Ever need to get SharePoint User Profiles from powershell?  Here’s a quick script to do just that:

$x= [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$x= [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("microsoft.sharepoint.portal")
$x= [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
$x= [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")

$s = get-spsite
$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($s[0])
$profileManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context)
$profileManager.GetEnumerator()

Just save as get-spuserprofiles.ps1, and then you can do things like this:

$p = get-spuserprofiles.ps1

$p = get-spuserprofiles.ps1 | ?{$_[“WorkEmail”] –eq “[email protected]”}