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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Introduction


As we've seen in Chapter 1, PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands, the strength of PowerShell lies in its ability to access and manipulate complex objects in SharePoint. In this chapter, we'll take a look at many more PowerShell capabilities and usage scenarios targeting enterprise content provisioning and deployment.

When setting up a new solution in your environment, you are likely to want to set it up on a test environment before rolling it out to production. In more complex scenarios, customers require the same solution to be deployed to testing, quality assurance, staging, and production environments. If your solution requires site hierarchy to be provisioned to many environments on the target system, it might be a very time consuming and error-prone task. In this chapter, we'll take a look at how you can create a reusable deployment script with PowerShell to automate your site hierarchy provisioning and solution deployment.

As your SharePoint environment...