PowerShell and SharePoint @spsnyc July 2012

Talbott Crowell
July 28, 2012
SharePoint Saturday NYC #SPSNYC

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@talbott

• What is PowerShell?
• PowerShell Basics
• Tools
• PowerShell and SharePoint
• Creating SharePoint 2010 Cmdlets
• Iteration Style Scripts

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• Unix-like shell
• Object oriented
• .NET
• Command line
• Scripting language

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• Windows PowerShell in Action
– by Bruce Payette
(designer and author of PowerShell)

• Windows PowerShell 2.0
Administrator's Pocket Consultant
– By William R. Stanek

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• Automated build and deploy
• Rapid prototyping
• Exploring “What If” scenarios
• Developer onboarding
• Administration automation

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• 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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• 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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• PowerShell Basics
– $a = DIR
– $a | gm
– Dates

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• 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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• # for comment
• Verb-Noun convention for commandlets
• Write-Host “Hello World”
• Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
• .scriptname to execute

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• Comes with PowerShell Commandlets
– Get-SPSite
– New-SPSite
– New-SPWeb
• If you are running from standard
PowerShell
Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
-ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWith
PartialName(”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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• 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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• 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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• function Get-Theme
([Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb]$SPWeb,
[string]$themeName)
• Strong typed parameters
• Returns
Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme

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• Upload File
– Takes in 1 or more files
• Has 3 blocks
– Begin
– Process
– End
• Process is executed for each file
• gci 'C:uploadfilesSamplesLegal' |
.build2010_upload_file.ps1 -Location "shared/legal" -
DocLib "Documents" -ContentType "Document" -
MetaDataField "Dept" -MetaDataValue "Legal"

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• How to: Build a SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cmdlet
– http://silverlight.sys-con.com/node/1370916

• Microsoft TechNet
– http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526

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• Please remember to turn in your filled out
bingo cards and event evaluations for prizes.

• SharePint is sponsored by Summit 7 Systems
across the way at the Hilton NYC.

• Follow SharePoint Saturday New York City on
Twitter @spsnyc and hashtag #spsnyc

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Talbott Crowell
ThirdM.com
http://talbottcrowell.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @talbott

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