Blogging about SharePoint

If you haven't started listening to the SharePoint Pod Show, you should! It's at www.sharepointpodshow.com, and I've listened two a few episodes so far - in particular the interviews with Andrew Connell and Jeremy Thake (Episode 13).  Thake even mentions my PowerShell Building Blocks (PSBB's) for SharePoint at 40 minutes, 53s to 42 minutes 45 seconds.  PSBB is one of my CodePlex projects - you can find it at www.codeplex.com/PSBB .  He mentions one that displays the SharePoint version number.  I don't think that's actually in the PSBB collection - yet. I need to add a number of scripts to it, and work with Neil Iverson to include his.  I the mean time, here is how to get the SharePoint version number.

function global:Get-SPFarm{

   return [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local

}

$farm = Get-SPFarm

$farm.BuildVersion

The result is:

Major  Minor  Build  Revision

-----  -----  -----  --------

12     0      0      6318

--- Michael