I recently did a PowerShell and SharePoint session at Tech Ed NZ 2011 and then again during Code Camp in the following weekend. The focus was on using PowerShell to create and configure a SharePoint portal and as promised here is a list of the scripts I used during my demo. These scripts and a couple other useful files are in my SkyDrive so you can go and grab them individually. The whole lot is in the same place as a zip too.
This is the order that I showed and used them (or intended to):
- Add a managed account
- Add and configure a web application
- Add the managed metadata service application (Didn’t run this one just showed it)
- Adding site collections
- Configuring and adding content databases
- Backup and restore the farm, a service application and/or a web application (Didn’t run this one just showed it)
- Backup and restore a site collection
- Start a search crawl
- Add some sub sites
- Change the site collection properties to point to a search center
- Change the site properties to use alternate CSS and a site logo
- Adding users to the sites and adding a second site collection administrator
- Walkthrough of the web hierarchy (webs, lists, list templates, content types, fields)
- Basic deploy of solutions (WSP’s)
- A better way to deploy solutions
- Turning on the developer dashboard
- Checking the ULS
Note: These scripts were kept pretty simple to make them easy to read and describe during the demo. I’d strongly recommend you add a bit of error checking, maybe a few if/check statements etc before just running them willy nilly. Also some things were commented out during the sessions – uncomment them at your leisure.
Code Camp Slide Deck
The Code Camp slide deck is more or less the same as the Tech.Ed one.
