PowerShell for SharePoint Developers
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The document provides details about Boulos Dib, an independent consultant with over 30 years of experience in software development. It lists his early experiences with computers and operating systems. It then outlines his agenda for a presentation on PowerShell and SharePoint, including a review of PowerShell concepts, the SharePoint Management Shell, common cmdlets, best practices, sample scripts and tools.
![Errors Handling – as in C#
try
{
$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile("http://www.contoso.com/MyDoc.doc")
}
catch [System.Net.WebException],[System.IO.IOException]
{
unable to download MyDoc.doc from http://www.contoso.com."
}
catch
{
"An error occurred that could not be resolved."
}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2011-11-16-powershellforsharepointdevelopers-120112121245-phpapp01/85/PowerShell-for-SharePoint-Developers-12-320.jpg)
PowerShell for SharePoint Developers
- 1. Boulos Dib November 16, 2011 http://blog.boulosdib.com @boulosdib
- 2. PS> Describe-Presenter Independent Consultant – Napeague Inc. Professional Software Development since 1983 Few Facts First Personal Computer 1980 – TRS-80 III First Z80 based product (EPROM based Protocol Adaptor – 1984) First Commercial PC-DOS product (Telex on PCs – 1985) Started 16-bit Windows Development using Win 3.1 Developed on: 8080/Z80, 68xxx, PDP/RSX,VAX-VMS and x86/x64 (C/C++/C#) Worked with PowerShell since Monad (2006) Worked with SharePoint since STS (2003) More facts Favorite sport – Windsurfing Favorite hobby – Playing my sunburst Fender Stratocaster+ guitar. Favorite guitar players Wes Montgomery, Larry Carlton and Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
- 3. Agenda Quick PowerShell Review SharePoint 2010 Management Shell PowerShell (Functions, CmdLet) SharePoint CmdLets by Group Best Practices Sample Scripts Tools Resources
- 4. PowerShell Review Interactive Command Shell Programmatic Execution Environment Dynamic Scripting Language Extensible (CmdLets, .Net etc…) Hosted (i.e. NuGet/PowerGUI vsix) Management tool for Servers
- 5. Review - What is a shell “A shell is the piece of software that lets you access the functionality provided by the operating system. “ Bruce Payette - Co-Designer and Implementer of the PowerShell language. Example Windows Explorer Command.com Cmd.exe Bash (Unix) PowerShell
- 6. Review - Consistent Environment Common Parameters -Verbose -Debug -WarningAction -WarningVariable -ErrorAction -ErrorVariable -OutVariable -OutBuffer Risk Mitigation Parameters (certainly critical in a production environment) What-If -Confirm Whildcard support. All names and parameter value can support wildcard. Pipeline
- 7. Where do I start Verb-XXNoun Verbs: Get, Set, New, Write, Read Nouns: Drive, Variable, Provider, Site, Collection Most important command Get-Help Get-Help * Get-Help *drive* Get-Member Get-Command
- 8. PowerShell Functions Scripts Error Handling Parameters Splatting Remoting PSSession
- 9. Functions Functions is a script block containing list of statements function small_files ($size = 100MB) { Get-ChildItem c: | where { $_.length -lt $size -and !$_.PSIsContainer} } To control how a function uses the pipeline, you use Begin, Process and End. function pipelineFunction { process {"The value is: $_"} } 1,2,3 | pipelineFunction Advanced functions allow you to write CmdLets using scripts instead of compiled code.
- 10. Scripts A Script file is a text file with .ps1 extension containing one or more PowerShell command A Script is a simple mechanism to re-use functionality. To run a script on a remote computer, use the Invoke- Command and provide remote computer name as a parameter. Scripts can accept parameters. To run a script in the current session, we Dot-Source the . .Script1.ps1 We can Scope Local or Global.
- 11. Error Handling Terminating vs. Nonterminating Errors Trap Throw – Sometime useful for parameters function hi ($name=$(throw '$name is required')) {"Hi $name"}
- 12. Errors Handling – as in C# try { $wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient $wc.DownloadFile("http://www.contoso.com/MyDoc.doc") } catch [System.Net.WebException],[System.IO.IOException] { unable to download MyDoc.doc from http://www.contoso.com." } catch { "An error occurred that could not be resolved." }
- 13. Snapins, Providers and Drives Get-PSProvider | Format-List Name, PSSnapin Get-PSSnapin Get-PSProvider Get-PSDrive
- 14. PowerShell Modules Get-Module –ListAvailable Import-Module ActiveDirectory
- 15. SharePoint Management Shell SharePoint Management Shell differs slightly from the Standard PowerShell: Runspace Threading $Host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread“ SharePoint Specific Snap-In Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
- 16. Threading & Proper Object Disposal $Host.Runspace.ThreadOptions = "ReuseThread" Get-SPAssignment –Global $spWeb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $url $spWeb.TreeViewEnabled = $True $spWeb.Update() Stop-SPAssignment –Global
- 17. Sharepoint CmdLets Groups Farm Application Solution Site Collection Site List and ListItem
- 18. Farm Backup-SPFarm Get-SPFarm Restore-SPFarm
- 19. Web Application Get-SPWebApplication New-SPWebApplication Remove-SPWebApplication Set-SPWebApplication
- 20. Solutions Get-SPSolution Add-SPSolution Remove-SPSolution Install-SPSolution UnInstall-SPSolution Update-SPSolution
- 21. Site Collections Backup-SPSite Get-SPSite Move-SPSite New-SPSite Remove-SPSite Restore-SPSite Set-SPSite
- 22. Sites Export-SPWeb Get-SPWeb Import-SPWeb New-SPWeb Remove-SPWeb Set-SPWeb
- 23. Tools - Productivity Tool Url PowerGUI http://PowerGUI.org/ PowerTab http://powertab.codeplex.com/ Community Extensions http://pscx.codeplex.com/ Quest ActiveRoles http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles- server.aspx/ ShowUI http://showui.codeplex.com/ Windows Automation Snapin http://wasp.codeplex.com/ for PowerShell
- 24. Visual Studio Hosted NuGet http://nuget.org/ http://nuget.codeplex.com/ PowerGUI vsix http://powerguivsx.codeplex.com/ StudioShell http://studioshell.codeplex.com/
- 25. Books – PowerShell PowerShell in Action Windows PowerShell 2.0 Bible Bruce Payette By Thomas Lee, Karl Mitschke, “The book from the authority on Mark E. Schill, and Tome PowerShell” Tanasovski http://powertoe.wordpress.com/ (Tome’s blog)
- 26. Books – PowerShell & SharePoint Automating Microsoft SharePoint PowerShell for Microsoft 2010 Administration with Windows Sharepoint 2010 Administrators. PowerShell 2.0 Gary Lapointe & Shannon Bray Niklas Goude & Mattias Karlsson http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/ http://www.powershell.nu/ http://mysharepointofview.com/ http://sppowershell.com/