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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

Exporting SharePoint BCS model and schema


As we've learned from the Importing a custom BCS model to SharePoint recipe, you can import a SharePoint BCS schema into the farm to be consumed by a custom productivity application, out-of-the-box data, graph web parts, and so on.

When your solution is in production for some time and you need to troubleshoot a problem, the first item on the list is to synchronize your testing or development environment with the configuration in the production environment. External business connectivity models are no exception. In this recipe, you will see how this process can be radically simplified by using PowerShell.

The benefit of performing this type of operation using a PowerShell script gives you the ability to have a defined and traceable set of items to be exported from your environments. Additionally, by using the PowerShell approach, you will not be required to install any of the client applications, such as SharePoint Designer, on the server, which...