PowerShell Fundamentals for SharePoint

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GOAL

To provide viewers with the knowledge necessary to become self sufficient in learning PowerShell to manage _______

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AGENDA• Basic PowerShell Cmdlets• Introduction to the SharePoint

Management Shell• Tips, Tricks, Functions, and Scripts

to managing SharePoint

PowerShell is…..

Interactive shellObject Oriented Scripting LanguageCmdlets

Verb-Noun

AliasesCls = Clear-HostDir = Get-ChildItem

Snapins & Modules$ is the prefix for declaring variables

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Discovering PowerShell…• Get-Command

• Wow that is a lot of cmdlets

• Get-Help

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DEMO 1

Get-Help

Get-Command

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Pipeline and Object Members…• Get-Member

• Shows the properties and methods available on objects

• Pipeline |• Allows you to send an object

retrieved from one cmdlet to other cmdlets for further processing

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Filtering, Sorting, Selecting….• Where-Object

• Filters objects

• Select-Object• Selects specific properties from objects

• Sort-Object• Sorts objects based on properties

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Operators…• Compares values• Examples

• -eq• -ne• -gt• -lt• -like• -contains• -is

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DEMO 2

Get-Member

Pipeline

Filtering, Selecting, Sorting

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Aliases & Profiles…• New-Alias – allows you to create a

shortcut to cmdlets• Profile(s) – script file that runs on

startup

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DEMO 3

AliasesProfiles

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SharePoint Cmdlets Demo

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Questions?

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