About Chris McKinley

@crmckinley

chris@sharepointedutech.com

PowerShell Basics

Cmdlets are in the form verb-noun

Make-coffee

Get-Process

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Parameters added after cmdlet

Make-coffee -sugar 2

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Pipe your data

Get-Command | where-object {$_.CommandType -like "Alias"}

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Variables

$myVariable = “Hello World!”

Some are system such as $error or $_

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Loops

Foreach ($object in $collection) {$object}

Not all things are equal

Just watch out for –eq –gt –lt

They are not the same as = > <

Operator Description -eq Equal to

-lt Less than

-gt Greater than

-ge Greater than or Eqaul to

-le Less than or equal to

-ne Not equal to

DEMO

Some basics of PowerShell. Out-file, get-command, pipes, loops and variables.

It’s called Windows, not Typies

ISE

Feature on the server

Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment

• Get-SPFarm

• Get-SPWebApplication

• Get-SPSite

• Get-SPWeb

• Add-SPSolution

SP PS

DEMO

Use of ISE. Getting SharePoint info. Updating site icons, iterating through sites. Creating and removing sites. Getting list items and properties.

Nah, just Bing it.

• Do you really know what that script is doing?

$web = Get-SPWeb "http://mywebapp/somesite/stuff" foreach ($i in $web.Lists) { if($i.Description = "My Test Calendar") { $i.Delete() } }

DEMO

Retrieve farm accounts

Any Questions?

Resources • Guy Thomas MVP

– http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/

• Retrieve Farm Accounts – http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11

@crmckinley

chris@sharepointedutech.com

One last thing…

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