SharePoint has a variety of web application settings and configurations which, in typical scenarios, administrators interact with as the new site is created or on an on-going basis.
In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can configure parameters such as SharePoint recycle bin settings, alert settings, and upload size limits. Also, we'll take a look at how you can manage whether the content on your site is opened within respective client applications or using the SharePoint 2010 Office Web Applications feature. We'll also see how you can create a site collection quota template allowing you to set initial limits for your site collections. We will then use the quota template on one of the existing site collections.
The benefit of performing the preceding configurations using PowerShell is that it allows you to script the most common environment configurations as a single set of instructions which can be used when similar environments are provisioned...