SharePoint document set is the new feature allowing users to group documents within their libraries in order to share common metadata value between the set of document. As an added benefit, with document sets, your users will be able to run out-of-the- box and custom workflows on the entire set and individual documents within a set.
The document set functionality in SharePoint is achieved using a concept of content types where you define your custom document set template in a form of the content type. Once your content type is defined, you can bind it to a set of desired libraries and let users work with the set.
Since document set configuration requires quite a few steps to make it available on the site, we can use PowerShell to script those configuration steps to help us quickly provision document sets to multiple environments. In the scenario where you have several document sets to be created and deployed, PowerShell will make it easier to...