Microsoft is releasing a new Powershell script to allow customers to upload files directly from a file share to a SharePoint document library. In addition, the script will allow files that have metadata to carry that metadata into SharePoint. The script was developed by the group responsible for the Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure and supports both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. If you are not familiar with the File Classification infrastructure, it allows organizations to assign classification metadata to files on a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server.

The SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata feature has been my favourite topic since coming back from the SharePoint conference.