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PowerShell and SharePoint
Talbott CrowellApril 28, 2012
SharePoint Saturday Boston #SPSBOS
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What is PowerShell?• Unix-like shell• Object oriented• .NET• Command line• Scripting language
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Why PowerShell for SharePoint?• Automated build and deploy• Rapid prototyping• Exploring “What If” scenarios• Developer onboarding• Administration automation
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When use PowerShell?• When you want to make your team more agile– Automation, automation, automation
• When developing, your daily build is like the projects heartbeat– PowerShell can be the pacemaker
• Testing– Use the PowerShell scripts to stand up an
environment for running tests
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PowerShell Basics• What do you know about a command line?– DIR
• How about– $a = DIR
• What is $a?– .NET Object
• use gm or get-member to query properites
– Array• $a[0]
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Demo - Basics• PowerShell Basics– $a = DIR– $a | gm– Dates
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Tools• cmd, notepad• PowerShell Command• Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting
Environment (ISE)– Import-Module ServerManager;– Add-WindowsFeature PowerShell-ISE
• PowerGUI– Download from powergui.org
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More Basics• # for comment• Verb-Noun convention for commandlets• Write-Host “Hello World”• Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted• .\scriptname to execute
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SharePoint 2010• Comes with PowerShell Commandlets– Get-SPSite– New-SPSite– New-SPWeb
• If you are running from standard PowerShellAdd-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
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Create Site Collections and Sites• Get-SPSite– Parameter: url
• New-SPSite– Parameters: url, name, ownerAlias, template
• New-SPWeb– Parameters: url, name, description, template…– Other params:
• -AddToTopNav or -UseParentTopNav• -AddToQuickLaunch
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What about MOSS 2007 or WSS?• Your friend STSADM is still there• You can call STSADM or any command line tool from
PowerShell• You can write your own command line tools with .NET• Better yet, you can write your own PowerShell
Commandlets!– Inherit from Cmdlet or PSCmdlet
• Gary Lapointe has WSS and MOSS Cmdlets!– http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2009/02/downloads.html
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Creating SharePoint 2010 Cmdlets• When creating non-persistent tasks (i.e. get info) use:
– SPCmdlet• When objects persist between commands, use:
– SPRemoveCmdletBase– SPNewCmdletBase– SPSetCmdletBase– SPGetCmdletBase
• For more info, see Gary Lapointe’s blog post:– http://
stsadm.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating-custom-sharepoint-2010-cmdlets.html
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Creating SharePoint Objects• [void]
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(”Microsoft.SharePoint”)– Load the assembly
• $SPSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url)– Reference to the site collection using SharePoint object
model• Don’t forget to– $SPSite.Dispose()
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Strategy• Series of scripts to build your site• Cleanup script to destroy site• Edit script, run cleanup, run script, view site– Repeat
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Demo – series of scripts• Build2010.ps1
– Calls other scripts• Build2010_site_structure.ps1
– Sets up the basic site structure and content types• Build2010_upload_file.ps1
– Uploads sample files to the site• Build2010_set_logo.ps1
– Adds site logo• Build2010_add_users.ps1
– Adds users to local machine and/or SharePoint groups
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Defining functions• function Get-Theme
([Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb]$SPWeb, [string]$themeName)
• Strong typed parameters• Returns
Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme
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Iteration Style Scripts• Upload File
– Takes in 1 or more files• Has 3 blocks
– Begin– Process– End
• Process is executed for each file• gci 'C:\uploadfiles\Samples\Legal' | .\
build2010_upload_file.ps1 -Location "shared/legal" -DocLib "Documents" -ContentType "Document" -MetaDataField "Dept" -MetaDataValue "Legal"
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Other References• How to: Build a SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlet
– http://silverlight.sys-con.com/node/1370916
Thank you. Questions?PowerShell and SharePoint
Talbott CrowellThirdM.com
http://talbottcrowell.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @talbott