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PowerShell is a tool that's intended to replace the Command Prompt and deliver more power and control over the Windows operating system.

That's why we decided to get a taste of PowerShell and then explain to all our readers what this tool is, why it is so powerful and who tends to use it more often. Let's see what PowerShell is and what you can do with it.

Microsoft designed Windows PowerShell as a tool that helps youautomate and quickly solve a lot of tedious administration tasks.

PowerShell's capabilities allow you to simplify and automate tedious and repetitive tasks by creating scripts and combining multiple commands together.

If you are a network administrator, you will find that PowerShell veryhelpful in working with Active Directory . Given that it containshundreds of customizable commands, which are called cmdlets,the degree to which PowerShell can help you become moreproductive is extremely high.

PowerShell is a tool that's intended to replace the CommandPrompt and deliver more power and control over the Windowsoperating system.

That's why we decided to get a taste of PowerShell and thenexplain to all our readers what this tool is, why it is so powerful andwho tends to use it more often. Let's see what PowerShell is andwhat you can do with it.

When you couple this powerful tool with a complex applicationsuch as SharePoint it really opens a world of interesting and creativeways of troubleshooting and data gathering. However, moststruggle to determine where to start.

• SPFarm

• Farm ConfigurationFarm• SPServer

• Server Properities, Server Roles(Web Front End, App, Database)Server

• SPWebApplication

• Web Application Properities, ContentWeb Application

• SPContentDatabase

• Content Database & ProperitiesDatabase

• SPWeb

• Web Properites, Team Sites, Publishing Portals.Site Collection

• Web Properties, Team Sites, Publishing Portals.Webs

• Document Libraries , Customer List, Discussion, Calendars, etc.,Lists

• Any list itemsItems

PowerShell does not Load SharePoint cmdLets

First Add SharePoint SnapIn to Load SharePoint cmdLets

Creating Site Collections and Sites

Moving Site Collections

Restoring Site Collection

Creating Web Applications

Working with Services

Managing Service Applications

Upgrade to SharePoint 2013

No Change with same commands

Add-SPSolution

Install-SPSolution Activates solution for web application(s)

-CompatibilityLevel (14, 15) – Installs solution to 14 / 15 hive

Add-SPSolution –LiteralPath C:\solution.wsp

Install-SPSolution -Identity solution.wsp -GACDeployment -CompatibilityLevel 15

Cmdlets to: Manage Health Checks

Upgrade

Request Evaluation Site Collections

Copy

View upgrade status with Get-SPSite

Test-SPSite Runs Site Collection Health Checks

All rules by default or specify specific rule

Repair-SPSite Automatically repairs all issues

Test-SPSite –Identity http://server/sitecollection

Repair-SPSite –Identity http://server/sitecollection

Request-SPUpgradeEvaluationSite Requests an upgrade evaluation site collection

Target URL auto-generated

-Email – specify whether site collection owner and farm admin receive notification

Request-SPUpgradeEvaluationSite http://server/sitecollection

Copy-SPSite Copies a site collection to a new URL

-Identity – source URL

-TargetUrl – destination URL

-DestinationDatabase (optional) – name of new database

Copy-SPSite http://server/sitecollection -DestinationDatabase MyContentDb -TargetUrl

http://server/sitecollection2

Most Service Applications deployed by: Creating a Service

Creating a Proxy

Parameters vary by application Service Application Name

Database

Application Pool

Most SAs take time to provision

Provides translation capability with Bing Translation

New-SPTranslationServiceApplication –Name TranslationService -ApplicationPool “SharePoint Web

Services Default” –DatabaseServer MyDatabaseServer –DatabaseName TranslationServiceDatabase

New-SPTranslationServiceApplicationProxy –Name TranslationServiceProxy –ServiceApplication

TranslationService –DefaultProxyGroup

Provides aggregation between SharePoint, Exchange, and Project

New-SPWorkManagementServiceApplication –Name "WM Service App" -ApplicationPool “SharePoint

Web Services Default”

New-SPWorkManagementServiceApplicationProxy -name "WMServiceProxy" -ServiceApplication

“WM Service App”

You need to Provision the Services from Services on Server Page

$ExcelService = Get-SPServiceInstance | Where TypeName -like "Excel*"

$ExcelService.Provision()

AppPackage – physical file containing the app (.app)

App – instance of an app on a given subsite .Id propery used often in cmdlets

Import-SPAppPackage – imports app package -Path – location of .app file

-Site – URL of site collection

-Source – MarketPlace / ObjectModel / CorporateCatalog / DeveloperSite

Install-SPApp – installs instance of an app -Identity – app object

-Web – URL to the site

$spapppack = Import-SPAppPackage -Path .\myapp.app -Site http://dev.adventure.com -Source ObjectModel

$appinstance = Install-SPApp -Web http://dev.adventure.com -Identity $spapppack

Get-SPAppInstance – returns an instance of an app -Identity – app instance

-Web – URL of site

Export-SPAppPackage – exports app package from content db -App – id of app

-Path – path of exported file

$appinstance = Get-SPAppInstance –Web http://dev.adventure.com | Where-Object { $_.Title -eq “AppTitle" }

Export-SPAppPackage –App $appinstance.App –Path .\myexportedapp.app

Update-SPAppInstance – updates an instance of an app

Uninstall-SPAppInstance – removes an instance of an app Get a reference to the previous app instance

Import new App Package

Update app instance using new app package

$appInstance = Get-SPAppInstance -web http://dev.adventure.com | Where-Object { $_.Title -eq “AppTitle" }

$appv2 = Import-SPAppPackage -Path .\myapp-v2.app -Site http://dev.adventure.com -Source ObjectModel

Update-SPAppInstance – Identity $appInstance –App $appv2

#To Uninstall an App

Uninstall-SPAppInstance -Identity $app

.NET Framework 4.5

Windows Management

Framework 3.0

Microsoft Online Services Sign-in

Assistant

All the latest updates

Windows Azure AD Module for Windows

PowerShell 32-bit

SharePoint Online Management Shell

Windows Azure AD Module for Windows

PowerShell 64-bit

Connect-SPOService Connects to SharePoint Online

-Url – URL to SharePoint Online tenant administration

i.e.: https://sp-admin.domain.com

-Credential – complete username of a global administrator

i.e.: admin@domain.onmicrosoft.com

Connect-SPOService –Url https://SP-admin.domain.com –Credential

admin@mytenant.onmicrosoft.com

Get-Command –Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

Get-SPOSite Returns one or more site collections

-Identity (optional) – URL of site collection

-Limit (optional) – number of site collections to return

Default 200, ALL can be used

-Filter (optional) – server side filtering using { }

Used in lieu of –Identity

Note case sensitive operators (-like, -notlike, -eq, -ne)

-Detailed – Returns non-default properties such as CompatibilityLevel

Get-SPOSite

Get-SPOSite -Detailed

Get-SPOSite –Identity https://sp.domain.com

Get-SPOSite –Filter {Url -like “*term*}

New-SPOSite Creates a site collection

-Url – full URL of new site collection

-Owner – full user name of site owner

i.e.: admin@sp.onmicrosoft.com

-StorageQuota – in MB

-Template (Optional) – i.e.: STS#0

Get-SPOWebTemplate – returns all installed site templates

-Title (Optional) – name of site collection

New-SPOSite -Url https://sp.domain.com/sites/mynewsite -Owner user@domain.com -

StorageQuota 1000 -Title "My new site collection“ –Template STS#0

Remove-SPOSite Moves site collection to recycle bin

-Identity – URL of site collection

Supports –confirm and -NoWait

Remove-SPOSite –Identity http://sp.domain.com/sites/sitename -NoWait

Restore-SPODeletedSite Restores a site collection from the recycle bin

-Identity – URL of site collection

Restore-SPODeletedSite –Identity http://sp.domain.com.com/sites/sitename -NoWait

Test-SPOSite -Identity – URL of site collection

Upgrade-SPOSite -Identity – URL of site collection

-V2VUpgrade – Required to do a version upgrade

-QueueOnly – only add the site collection to the upgrade queue

Test-SPOSite -Identity http://sp.domain.com/sites/sitename

Upgrade-SPOSite -Identity http://sp.domain.com/sites/sitename -V2VUpgrade

Get-SPOUser -Site – full URL of site collection

-LoginName (Optional) – specific user account name

i.e.: admin@sp.domain.com

Add-SPOUser Adds existing user to a SharePoint Group

-Site – full URL of site collection

-LoginName – specific user account name

-Group – SharePoint group

Get-SPOUser -Site https://sp.domain.com.com -LoginName user@domain.com

Add-SPOUser -Site https://sp.domain.com.com -LoginName user@domain.com -Group "Team Site

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