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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
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Preface

Creating, importing, and exporting managed metadata taxonomy terms


Managed metadata is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 which allows users to store centralized metadata terms. Terms in SharePoint can be managed centrally and used anywhere on the site allowing your users to hold enterprise-wide metadata.

Once in the system, managed metadata frequently needs to travel between staging, development, and production environments. With PowerShell, you will be able to reliably configure metadata stored on all of your environments without incurring a significant downtime.

Currently, there is no alternative out-of-the-box user interface allowing administrators to export metadata terms, which makes PowerShell a perfect candidate to perform such tasks automatically, without requiring significant development.

Getting ready

Assuming you have already set up your virtual development environment as described in Chapter 1, PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands, we'll get right into...