power shell for sp admins

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Rick Taylor

PowerShell for SharePoint Admins

Who Am I?

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Rick Taylor

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• Rick Taylor, MCSE, MCT

– Richard.Taylor@perficient.com– SharePoint architect, formerly with Microsoft

SharePoint Platform Architecture Team for SharePoint Online

– Contact• http://blogs.technet.com/ritaylor• Twitter: @SLKRCK

• What is Windows PowerShell • Windows PowerShell basics • Windows PowerShell scripts for SharePoint

administrators

Agenda

• Command-line interface and scripting language used for SharePoint Server administration– Complements CMD– Extends STSADM– Built on the .Net Framework

What is Windows PowerShell?

• Tool of choice for administering SharePoint from the command line.

• Provides:– More Control– More Efficiency– More Productivity

• Better, Stronger, Faster…

Why do we care?

• STSADM still available to support backwards compatibility

• Can leverage it in Windows PowerShell scripts• Whatever STSADM can do, Windows PowerShell can

do better!– More granular control for backup / restore.– Deploy Features in one fell swoop

What about STSADM?

• cmdlet – pronounced "command-let“

– single function that can be used separately or combined with other cmdlets to perform complex tasks and automate administration

Windows PowerShell Basics

Windows PowerShell Basics

• cmdlets = verbs (actions) & nouns (objects)– Combine the two to build specific commands– Examples

• Get-SPSite• Get = Verb • SPSite = Noun

• Get a list of all commands:– Get-Command –noun sp*

• Get help for a specific command:– Get-Help <cmdlet>

Getting the list of SharePoint cmdlets

• For more detailed help add the following parameters:

– Get-Help <cmdlet> -full

– Get-Help <cmdlet> -examples

– Get-Help <cmdlet> -detailed

Getting the list of SharePoint cmdlets

CHECKING OUT WINDOWS POWERSHELL

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• Build scripts to easily execute through common commands and tasks

• Develop using PowerShell ISE or other shells• Schedule using Task Scheduler.

PowerShell Scripts

• Examples:– Activate a feature across multiple site collections– Provisioning of Managed Accounts– Creating of New Sites– Backup all Site Collections in Farm

PowerShell Scripts

• Sample Script:– $password = Read-Host "What is the password for

all accounts?" -assecurestring ; Get-Content usernames.txt | ForEach-Object {New-SPManagedAccount -password $password -username warrior\$_; Set-SPManagedAccount -identity $_ -autogenerate -confirm:$False}

Scripting Syntax

Syntax Description

$ Denotes a variable.

; Denotes completion of cmdlet, continue to next one.

| Sends the output of the preceding cmdlet to the next cmdlet.

ForEach-Object { } For each object, execute all the commands within the { }.

THE 11 MOST USEFUL SHAREPOINT POWERSHELL CMDLETS

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Top 11 Most Useful SharePoint PowerShell Cmdlets

1. Get-help2. Get-command3. Get-SPSite/SPWeb4. Move-SPSite5. Import-SPWeb6. Backup-SP*7. Restore-SP*8. New-SP*9. Remove-SP*10. Install-SPFeature/SPSolution11. Enable-SPFeature/TimerJob

• Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Foundation 2010– http://

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662510(office.14).aspx

• Windows PowerShell Getting Started Guide– http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973757(VS.85).

aspx

• Windows PowerShell Cheat Sheet– http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/windows-powershell

• STSADM to Windows PowerShell mapping– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621084.aspx

• Zach Rosenfield’s blog– http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/default.aspx

Additional PowerShell Resources

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