Slide deck from #suguk meeting 24th May 2012. Powershell to the people by @crmckinley

2. About Chris McKinley
@crmckinley
chris@sharepointedutech.com

3. PowerShell Basics
Cmdlets are in the form verb-noun
Make-coffee
Get-Process

4. PowerShell Basics
Parameters added after cmdlet
Make-coffee -sugar 2

5. PowerShell Basics
Pipe your data
Get-Command | where-object
{$_.CommandType -like "Alias"}

6. PowerShell Basics
Variables
$myVariable = “Hello World!”
Some are system such as $error or $_

7. PowerShell Basics
Loops
Foreach ($object in $collection)
{$object}

8. 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

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

10. It’s called Windows,
not Typies
ISE
Feature on the server
Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting
Environment

11. SP PS
• Get-SPFarm
• Get-SPWebApplication
• Get-SPSite
• Get-SPWeb
• Add-SPSolution

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

13. 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()
}
}

14. Retrieve farm accounts
DEMO

15. Any Questions?
@crmckinley
chris@sharepointedutech.com
Resources
• Guy Thomas MVP
– http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/powershell/
• Retrieve Farm Accounts
– http://www.sharepointlonghorn.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=11

16. One last thing…
• Submit an idea for a custom SharePoint 2010
web part and you are in with a chance of us
building it for you for free!
• http://www.SharePointEduTech.com
• http://tinyurl.com/spetwp