PowerShell for SharePoint Developers and Administrators

1. PowerShell for SharePoint Developers and Administrators Michael Blumenthal Magenic Technologies MichaelBl@Magenic.com

2. Who is Michael Blumenthal? • Sr. Consultant @ Magenic (MSFT Gold Partner) • 16 years in IT Consulting • 8 years working with SharePoint • MCITP: SharePoint 2010; MCTS: WSS Dev • MCTS: MOSS Config & MCTS: WSS Config • MCAD, MCSE, MCDBA, CAPM

3. Why PowerShell?

4. PowerShell puts the SharePoint Engine at your fingertips!

5. Chapter 1 It’s Easy to get Started!

6. Getting Started with PowerShell

8. Shell User Experience >>

10. Chapter 2 Learn the PowerShell Syntax!

11. Learn to use PowerShell with SharePoint!

12. Symbols, Keywords, and Syntax! Oh My!

13. Punctuation Pronunciation Is “$#|” a “one dollar hash pipe”?

14. 1 Variables begin with a $

16. Commands are called cmdlets. • 2

18. The Power of Piping! • 3 |

19. Example

20. Making Comparisons • 4

21. Taking Control of the Flow • 5

22. Example

23. Where-Object • 6

24. Using the SharePoint API

25. Highlights from the SharePoint Object Model SPSite

26. Loading SharePoint DLLs [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]:: LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

27. Get a Site and Explore it! $site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(“http://server/path”) OR $site = Get-SPSite(“http://server/path”) THEN $site

29. Create a List Item

30. Practical Uses

31. A Word About Memory Management Dispose

33. Creating .PS1 Script Files

34. Executing Scripts

35. Chapter 3 Real World Examples

36. Real World Examples • Check the Version • Check Versioning on all document Libraries • Clear a list • Look at multiple Event Throttling levels at once for the ULS (diagnostic) log

37. What’s your MOSS Version? $farm = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local $farm.BuildVersion Major  Minor  Build  Revision -----  -----  -----  -------- 12     0      0      6318

38. Check Doc Lib Versioning Settings function global:show-all-doclibs ($web) {$web.Lists | where-object {($_.Hidden -ne $true) -and ($_.BaseType -eq "DocumentLibrary")} } function global:show-all-doclib-versettings ($web) {show-all-doclibs ($web) |select-object -property Title, EnableVersioning, MajorVersionLimit, EnableMinorVersions,MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit,forceCheckout} $site = get-spsite “http://server/path” show-all-doclib-versettings $site.RootWeb

40. Clear a List • Make a mess: • Clean it up!

42. Look at the ULS configuration • Why? • See multiple event categories at once! • How? • $ulsid = $farm.Services | select-object TypeName, Id | where {$_.TypeName -eq "Windows SharePoint Diagnostics Service"} | Select-Object Id • $ulsvc = $farm.GetObject($ulsid.Id.ToString()) • $ulsvc.GetItems() | Select-Object Name, EventSeverity, TraceSeverity, hidden | where {$_.hidden -eq 0}

44. Chapter 4 More Resources

45. Resources

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