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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

Provisioning site hierarchy during solution deployment


In this recipe, we'll give full attention to one of the most common tasks administrators and developers need to perform together when a new solution is deployed to client environments: provisioning of site hierarchy. To keep this recipe within the scope of actual site provisioning and not custom site template development, we will be provisioning a site hierarchy of team sites. In your scenario, you are very likely to need to provision site hierarchy of sites deriving from a custom site template. The template will be developed separately and the PowerShell script we'll create here will not change regardless of the templates we're provisioning.

In fact, the PowerShell script we'll create is going to use an XML file where developers will specify the order of the site provisioning and site template used, as well any features activated on the site once it's created.

At the end of this recipe, you will have a reusable script which you can...