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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.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Yaroslav Pentsarskyy
Nov, 2011 | 310 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands
Introduction
Setting up your Virtual Machine and running a test script
Authoring, debugging, and executing script accessing farm settings with PowerGUI and PowerShell ISE
Accessing advanced SharePoint 2010 functionality with external libraries
Creating a custom PowerShell command (CmdLet)
Creating a custom PowerShell Snap-In
2
Enterprise Content Deployment and Provisioning Using PowerShell
Enterprise Content Deployment and Provisioning Using PowerShell
Introduction
Provisioning site hierarchy during solution deployment
Installing features on the site and managing existing site features
Creating permission levels and security groups that use them
Managing site templates and their availability on sites
Associating features to existing site templates
Managing SharePoint workflow association using PowerShell
Configuring site themes and user interface artifacts
3
Performing Advanced List and Content Operations in SharePoint using PowerShell
Performing Advanced List and Content Operations in SharePoint using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating lists of custom structures
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
4
Managing External Data in SharePoint and Business Connectivity Services using PowerShell
Managing External Data in SharePoint and Business Connectivity Services using PowerShell
Introduction
Importing a custom BCS model to SharePoint
Exporting SharePoint BCS model and schema
Creating instances of external lists with PowerShell
Managing permissions on an external list
Throttling items returned with external lists
5
Managing SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Social Features Using PowerShell
Managing SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Social Features Using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating new user profiles
Adding and configuring new profile properties
Bulk provisioning data into user profile properties
Creating, importing, and exporting managed metadata taxonomy terms
Enabling social ratings on lists and libraries
Bulk tagging content and deleting tags in SharePoint
6
Managing SharePoint Search and FAST Search with PowerShell
Managing SharePoint Search and FAST Search with PowerShell
Introduction
Configuring search query suggestions in your search center
Configuring search best bets
Configuring visual best bets
Configuring search audience targeting
Configuring search web parts automatically with PowerShell
7
Managing SharePoint Site Content in Bulk using PowerShell
Managing SharePoint Site Content in Bulk using PowerShell
Introduction
Creating basic and complex content types
Creating and configuring document sets
Creating and editing publishing pages with PowerShell
Provisioning web parts in bulk on to SharePoint pages
Configuring web parts in bulk with PowerShell
Provisioning list rollups using Powershell
8
Managing Documents and Records in SharePoint with PowerShell
Managing Documents and Records in SharePoint with PowerShell
Introduction
Provisioning documents and records center with PowerShell
Configuring record routing
Configuring a common record expiration policy
Creating a custom expiration policy for the record
Configuring content hub for content types used in records center
9
Administrating Web Application and Server Administration in SharePoint with PowerShell
Administrating Web Application and Server Administration in SharePoint with PowerShell
Introduction
Configuring web application settings
Parsing SharePoint logs using PowerShell
Managing web application throttling settings
Configuring sandbox solution policies
Managing sandbox solutions in SharePoint site collections

Introduction

SharePoint FAST Search is all about helping users in your organization get to relevant content fast. To facilitate this, SharePoint FAST Search comes with a variety of key features, many of which we will be discussing in detail in this chapter.

We'll start with the search suggestions feature which allows users to select the most common search suggestions while trying to refine their search query. In this chapter, we'll take a look at what's involved in configuring search suggestions and how to pre-populate the list of suggestions for your users when your new search has only just been launched.

Best bets allow users to visually separate regular search results from the results which the search engine considers to be exactly what the user is searching for. For example, your new employees may be looking for a collection of company policies and type respective keywords which search for the type of policy. In this chapter, we'll take a look at how you can configure search to...

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