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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook

By : Yaroslav Pentsarskyy
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook

By: Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Overview of this book

PowerShell is tightly integrated with SharePoint 2010, demonstrating an important alliance between the fastest growing collaboration and web publishing platform, and the latest task automation framework. The advantages of PowerShell and SharePoint integration help administrators and infrastructure specialists achieve everyday enterprise tasks more efficiently, and this book will ensure you get the most out of SharePoint configuration and management. When it comes to custom SharePoint 2010 solution configuration, creating robust PowerShell scripts is the best option for saving time and providing a point of reference as to the changes made in the server environment. This practical expert cookbook translates the most commonly found scenarios into a series of immediately usable recipes, allowing you to get up and running straight away with writing powerful PowerShell scripts for SharePoint. “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook” focuses on a range of distinct areas of SharePoint administration, with expert recipes targeting unique business examples.You will learn exactly how solutions were achieved for managing SharePoint list settings with PowerShell, PowerShell configuration of SharePoint FAST Search, and more. You will also learn how to tailor the recipe to your own business needs.With this advanced cookbook in hand, you will be fully equipped with the source code as a starting point for creating your scripts in order to take advantage of the integration between SharePoint and PowerShell.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Yaroslav Pentsarskyy
Nov, 2011 | 310 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
Introduction
Setting up your Virtual Machine and running a test script
Authoring, debugging, and executing script accessing farm settings with PowerGUI and PowerShell ISE
Accessing advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality with external libraries
Creating a custom PowerShell command (CmdLet)
Creating a custom PowerShell Snap-In
2
Enterprise Content Deployment and Provisioning Using PowerShell
Enterprise Content Deployment and Provisioning Using PowerShell
Introduction
Provisioning site hierarchy during solution deployment
Installing features on the site and managing existing site features
Creating permission levels and security groups that use them
Managing site templates and their availability on sites
Associating features to existing site templates
Managing SharePoint workflow association using PowerShell
Configuring site themes and user interface artifacts
3
Performing Advanced List and Content Operations in SharePoint using PowerShell
Performing Advanced List and Content Operations in SharePoint using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating lists of custom structures
Setting SharePoint list item validation with PowerShell
Setting list item security
Setting list relationships
Customizing list views
Managing the use of content types in lists
4
Managing External Data in SharePoint and Business Connectivity Services using PowerShell
Managing External Data in SharePoint and Business Connectivity Services using PowerShell
Introduction
Importing a custom BCS model to SharePoint
Exporting SharePoint BCS model and schema
Creating instances of external lists with PowerShell
Managing permissions on an external list
Throttling items returned with external lists
5
Managing SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Social Features Using PowerShell
Managing SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Social Features Using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating new user profiles
Adding and configuring new profile properties
Bulk provisioning data into user profile properties
Creating, importing, and exporting managed metadata taxonomy terms
Enabling social ratings on lists and libraries
Bulk tagging content and deleting tags in SharePoint
6
Managing SharePoint Search and FAST Search with PowerShell
Managing SharePoint Search and FAST Search with PowerShell
Introduction
Configuring search query suggestions in your search center
Configuring search best bets
Configuring visual best bets
Configuring search audience targeting
Configuring search web parts automatically with PowerShell
7
Managing SharePoint Site Content in Bulk using PowerShell
Managing SharePoint Site Content in Bulk using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating basic and complex content types
Creating and configuring document sets
Creating and editing publishing pages with PowerShell
Provisioning web parts in bulk on to SharePoint pages
Configuring web parts in bulk with PowerShell
Provisioning list rollups using Powershell
8
Managing Documents and Records in SharePoint with PowerShell
Managing Documents and Records in SharePoint with PowerShell
Introduction
Provisioning documents and records center with PowerShell
Configuring record routing
Configuring a common record expiration policy
Creating a custom expiration policy for the record
Configuring content hub for content types used in records center
9
Administrating Web Application and Server Administration in SharePoint with PowerShell
Administrating Web Application and Server Administration in SharePoint with PowerShell
Introduction
Configuring web application settings
Parsing SharePoint logs using PowerShell
Managing web application throttling settings
Configuring sandbox solution policies
Managing sandbox solutions in SharePoint site collections

Introduction

PowerShell as a scripting language will execute actions on your target environment. Scripting is not a new concept and PowerShell is definitely not a new language. However, PowerShell and SharePoint 2010 integrate very well. This integration allows administrators and developers to access not just a limited set of commands, but also to connect to SharePoint objects and libraries to take advantage of additional capabilities of SharePoint as a platform. To ensure that we are on the same page while reading this book and trying out various recipes, we'll start by setting up your environment and verifying the setup by running a test script. After all, SharePoint relies on components, most of which we're going to be directly interacting with, and having a consistently configured environment will help in reducing any potential integration issues.

Although we can author our PowerShell scripts in Notepad and execute them in a PowerShell command-line environment, you can experience more advantages from authoring and debugging your scripts by using rich authoring environments, such as PowerGUI or PowerShell ISE. In this chapter, we'll see exactly what the benefits of using those environments are.

Whether you are creating a PowerShell script in a professional scripting environment or calling an existing script from a command line, you'll quickly notice that a default set of commands is definitely not enough to manage and work with your SharePoint system. When you have the need to author scripts accessing various other aspects of SharePoint functionality, you will need to use the additional libraries available to facilitate custom or out-of-the-box functionality required. This is a very common scenario for developers when building custom solutions for a variety of platforms. PowerShell, as a scripting language, really takes advantage of this concept allowing you to call functions from SharePoint and third-party libraries. In this chapter, we'll take a look at exactly how you can access advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality using external libraries.

As you become more familiar with authoring PowerShell scripts, you will realize that you can create a collection of reusable functionality which can be shared with others. That's when you can take advantage of sealing your custom functionality in a portable and sharable way. We'll take a look at how you can package your custom scripts as custom PowerShell CmdLets, as well as how to create a custom PowerShell Snap-In.

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