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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
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Preface

Importing a custom BCS model to SharePoint


Business users in many organizations use their company's SharePoint site for collaboration. Users also like to access data from other external business applications within their collaboration environment. For example, you may be asked to allow users to access business performance data from custom a CRM system. This may sound like a complex task, but with BCS you can create a connection to external data in no time.

In this recipe, we'll learn exactly what's involved in exporting a BCS model, and then create a PowerShell script which provisions a custom BCS model into your site. Once the model is provisioned, in the Creating instances of external lists with PowerShell recipe in this chapter, we'll see how you can provision a list which consumes our external data.

At the end of this recipe, you will be all set with the script allowing you to import custom SharePoint BCS models.

Getting ready

Assuming you have already set up your virtual development...