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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

Creating instances of external lists with PowerShell


We've got the BCS model imported into our SharePoint 2010 environment as demonstrated in the Importing a custom BCS model to SharePoint recipe. However, the BCS model can only be used when users interact with the business data the model connects to. One of the most common containers of the business data is a SharePoint external list.

In this recipe, we'll see how you can automatically provision and configure an external list to connect to the BCS system, as well as how you can configure some of the parameters of the data retrieval from the BCS system.

The scenario described in this recipe will help you to provision consistently configured instances of SharePoint external lists when new external lists functionality are required to be added to an existing SharePoint solution. As opposed to provisioning external lists manually, or using a solution package, by using PowerShell, you will be able to provision external lists without causing...