This document provides an overview of a presentation about managing SharePoint 2010 farms using PowerShell. The presentation introduces PowerShell and demonstrates how to access and interact with SharePoint objects using PowerShell cmdlets. It discusses when PowerShell should be used over traditional tools like STSADM, and provides examples of automating common administration tasks like backups, site management, and traversing the site hierarchy. The goal is to help administrators learn PowerShell and understand how it can simplify and streamline SharePoint administration.

1. Managing SharePoint 2010 Farms With PowerShell Brian T. Jackett Sogeti USA www.BrianTJackett.com @BrianTJackett Brian.Jackett@us.sogeti.com

3. Microsoft BI and Collaboration Lead

4. Blogger

5. Twitter’er

6. PowerShell Enthusiast

7. Central Ohio SPUG Steering Committee

10. Basic Usage

11. Demos

12. Integrate with SharePoint

13. More Demos

15. Been using STSADM and need to learn PowerShell

16. Been using PowerShell and want to use on SharePointLittle bit of content for everyone

20. Breaking Open PowerShell

22. Originally codename Monad

23. Later renamed to Microsoft Shell (MSH)

24. Later renamed again to Windows PowerShell

25. Becoming a cornerstone tool for administrationExchange 2007 SQL Server 2008 … and now SharePoint 2010!! In 2010, your newest Swiss Army Knife in SP tool bag

28. New scripting languageAims to be familiar to those writing VBscript or shell scripting like Unix, but simplified like command line

29. Screenshot Comparison to CMD

34. Get-Alias [cmdlet [*]]

37. a process must be performed for multiple workstations/users/etc

38. you don’t know the target that needs to be modified“If you have to write it twice, script it”

41. Good place to load needed assemblies

42. Accessed at $profile<docs>indowsPowerShellicrosoft.PowerShell_profile <docs>indowsPowerShellicrosoft.PowerShellise_profile Easy to create: “new-item –type file –path <path>”

43. Enough Intro, Let’s Demo

44. Demo 1 Get-Help Get-Member Simple commands with file system Get-Alias Tab complete

45. Power of the Pipe

48. Where-Object

50. Our Protégé is Walking

52. Environment

53. Registry

54. Alias

55. Function

56. Variable

57. CertificateGet-PSProvider & Get-PSDrive

58. I know what you’re thinking… 28 Slides and no demos about SharePoint yet…?!?

60. Finally PowerShell + SharePoint

61. Demo 3 – Site Hierarchy Access SharePoint Hierarchy Access object properties http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/zach/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=43

63. Remove old backups

64. Determine size of largest backup

65. Schedule PowerShell commandsPowerShell -command "& 'MyScript.ps1' “ Place into a .cmd or .bat and schedule as usual Can programmatically call script based on output from others

67. Remove old backups

69. Demo 4 - Backups Backup-SPSite Backup-SPFarm Get-SPBackupHistory

71. Set/unset master pages

72. Create/delete site

73. Check file sizes on site

74. Update list values

76. Limit Server Results With –Filter Switch Typically you have this scenario

77. Limit Server Results With –Filter Switch Using –Filter limits results coming back from server

78. Demo 6 – Server Side Filter Filter SPWebs server side

79. See How Fast This Shell Can Go

81. Recursively traverse site hierarchy

82. Read SharePoint group membership

83. Determine Active Directory groups

85. Who’s Brain is Full Now?

87. Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)

88. Script debugging (breakpoints)

89. Background jobs

90. Modules

93. SharePoint Management Console = PowerShell

96. Syntax and how to use

97. Basic demos for file system and SharePoint

99. Q&A

100. Thank you for attending!

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