Painless PowerShell for SharePoint Admins Rick Taylor

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Agenda What is Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell basics Windows PowerShell scripts for administrators

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

cmdlet pronounced "command-let“ More than 500 cmdlets for SharePoint alone Windows PowerShell Basics

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SharePoint 2013 Nouns and Verbs 774 Total commands Nouns start with SP 334 Nouns

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 Getting the list of SharePoint cmdlets

Windows PowerShell for SharePoint Command Builder

For more detailed help add the following parameters: Get-Help -full Get-Help -examples Get-Help -detailed Getting the list of SharePoint cmdlets

Differences in Get-help: -full

Differences in Get-help: -detailed

Differences in Get-help: - examples

-WhatIf Evaluate what happens without side-effects

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Adding SharePoint Snap-In to ISE

Checking out Windows PowerShell DEMO

Build scripts to easily execute through common commands and tasks Develop using PowerShell ISE or other shells Schedule using Task Scheduler. PowerShell Scripts

SharePoint Basic Site Structure

Site Structure Creation CommandDescription New-SPManagedAccountRegisters a new managed account New-SPWebApplicationCreates a new web application New-SPContentDatabaseCreates a new content database for a web application New-SPManagedPathCreates a managed path New-SPSiteCreates a new site collection New-SPWebCreates a new web within a site collection

Permissions for Shell Admins for Backup and Restore Farm componentMember of Administrators group on the local computer Member of Farm Administrators SharePoint group Full Control on backup folder FarmYesNoYes Service applicationYesNoYes Content databaseYesNoYes Site collectionNoYes Site, list, document library YesNoYes

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

Service Application Setup/Configuration Cmdlet NameExample Get-SPServiceInstance $svc = (Get-SPServiceInstance | ? {$_.TypeName -eq "Managed Metadata Web Service"}) Start-SPServiceInstance if ($svc.Status –eq "Disabled") { $svc | Start-SPServiceInstance } while($svc.Status -ne "Online") { Write-Host "Waiting to provision"; sleep 5; } New-SP*ServiceApplication PS C:\> Get-Command New-SP*ServiceApplication New-SP*ServiceApplicationProxy PS C:\> Get-Command New-SP*ServiceApplicationProxy New-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroup Add-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroupMember New-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroup "Demo" $mms = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | ?{$_.TypeName -eq "Managed Metadata Service Connection"} Add-SPServiceApplicationProxyGroupMember -Identity "Demo" - Member $mms

Connect-SPOService –Url –credential

PS C:\windows\system32> get-command -noun spo* | Group Noun Count Name Group SPOUser {Add-SPOUser, Get-SPOUser, Remove-SPOUser, S... 2 SPOService {Connect-SPOService, Disconnect-SPOService} 1 SPOAppErrors {Get-SPOAppErrors} 1 SPOAppInfo {Get-SPOAppInfo} 3 SPODeletedSite {Get-SPODeletedSite, Remove-SPODeletedSite,... 2 SPOExternalUser {Get-SPOExternalUser, Remove-SPOExternalUser} 7 SPOSite {Get-SPOSite, New-SPOSite, Remove-SPOSite, R... 4 SPOSiteGroup {Get-SPOSiteGroup, New-SPOSiteGroup, Remove SPOTenant {Get-SPOTenant, Set-SPOTenant} 1 SPOTenantLogEntry {Get-SPOTenantLogEntry} 1 SPOTenantLogLastAvaila... {Get-SPOTenantLogLastAvailableTimeInUtc} 1 SPOWebTemplate {Get-SPOWebTemplate} 1 SPOUpgradeEvaluationSite {Request-SPOUpgradeEvaluationSite}

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