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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

Managing site templates and their availability on sites


As with many other features on SharePoint sites, you can define your own custom site templates and then specify whether those templates are going to be available for users to use. You can also define whether users can create an instance of the site based on chosen out-of-the-box site templates.

In most scenarios, site owners in your organization will not need access to all of the site templates available in SharePoint out of the box. One of the most common reasons is the fact that the custom branding your organization may be using has not been designed for all site templates. When such ad-hoc sites are created, they will not follow the envisioned corporate look and feel as well as functionality.

In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can define the set of specific site templates which are allowed to be created below the hierarchy of the root site. By using PowerShell for this scenario, we'll dramatically decrease the time required...