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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

Chapter 3. Performing Advanced List and Content Operations in SharePoint using PowerShell

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Creating lists of custom structure

  • Setting SharePoint list item validation with PowerShell

  • Setting list item security

  • Setting list relationships

  • Customizing list views

  • Managing the use of content types in lists

Introduction

Lists and libraries are heavily used in any SharePoint site. In this chapter, we'll see how you can use PowerShell to define lists based on a custom structure and deploy them on to various levels of your SharePoint site. We'll see how you can define validation rules on items created in lists.

We'll also take a look at how you can automate provisioning of custom security on the list items.

Since many lists in your custom SharePoint solution may be dependent on data coming from other lists, we'll see how you can define lists with referential relationships as well as define rules around referential integrity between list items.

Most of the time, the business...