Tech Ed North America 2010 4/27/2019 12:04 AM Required Slide SESSION CODE: OSP402 Windows PowerShell Made Less Scary for the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator Todd Klindt and Shane Young SharePoint Nerds SharePoint911 © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Who is this Todd guy? WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, stunt double for Ray Romano Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog E-mail todd@sharepoint911.com Twitter me! @toddklindt

Who Am I? Shane Young Owner of SharePoint911.com Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker shane@sharepoint911.com Blog http://msmvps.com/shane SharePoint Consulting http://www.sharepoint911.com http://twitter.com/shanescows I am going to run for President when I grow up.

05 - SharePoint Administration with PowerShell v2.0 Agenda What is Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell basics Windows PowerShell scripts for administrators © 2010 Critical Path Training, LLC - All Rights Reserved

What is Windows PowerShell? Command-line interface and scripting language used for SharePoint Server administration Compliments CMD Extends STSADM Uses XML & Objects Built on the .Net Framework

Why do we care? Complete command-line system that is far more powerful than any previous Windows-based command-line prompt environment. Provides: More Control More Efficiency More Productivity

What about STSADM? STSADM still available to support backwards compatibility Can leverage it in Windows PowerShell scripts Whatever STSADM can do, Windows PowerShell can do better! Ability to run against SQL Snapshots, instead of production. More granular control for backup / restore.

Windows PowerShell Basics 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 cmdlets = verbs (actions) & nouns (objects) Combine the two to build specific commands Examples Get-SPSite Get = Verb SPSite = Noun

Getting the list of SharePoint cmdlets 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

Noodling around in Windows PowerShell Tech Ed North America 2010 4/27/2019 12:04 AM Noodling around in Windows PowerShell Todd Klindt and Shane Young SharePoint Nerds SharePoint911 DEMO © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

PowerShell Scripts 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

Scripting Syntax Sample Script: $password = Read-Host "What is the password for all accounts?" -assecurestring ; Get-Content usernames.txt | ForEach-Object {New-SPManagedAccount -password $password -username litwareinc\$_; Set-SPManagedAccount -identity $_ -autogenerate -confirm:$False} 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 { }.

Windows PowerShell scripts in SharePoint Tech Ed North America 2010 4/27/2019 12:04 AM Windows PowerShell scripts in SharePoint Todd Klindt and Shane Young SharePoint Nerds SharePoint911 DEMO © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Additional PowerShell Resources 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

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