This document discusses automating SharePoint 2010 administration tasks using PowerShell. It describes how PowerShell provides over 600 cmdlets for administering SharePoint, which allows administrators to automate repetitive tasks, deploy SharePoint farms in a controlled manner, and extend functionality beyond the original capabilities. Examples demonstrated include automating a SharePoint installation, configuring multilingual sites, managing user profiles, provisioning sites, and extending capabilities like configuring list versioning settings across all lists.

1. Automating SharePoint 2010 administration tasks with Power Shell Toni Frankola SharePoint MVP, Croatia Toni.frankola@acceleratio.hr http://sharepointusecases.com @ToniFrankola

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3. Contents

4. The problem A SharePoint farm:

5. The problem (2) – SharePoint structure Farm Web Applications Site Collections Sites Lists ... Service Applications Search User profile ... Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings, Setings

6. In 2007 Stsadm Automation

7. stsadm Limited Not that many cmdlets available Script language extending? Gary Lapointe Codeplex Some tasks only via stsadm Only for SharePoint (SQL? AD?)

8. Enters PowerShell New automation language Mixture of script and .NET 600+ cmdlets for SharePoint alone Target audience? DEV / IT Pro? Not limited to SharePoint AD SQL IIS Exchange, Lync…

9. Why PowerShell? Saves time & money Repeatable tasks E.g. Deploying SharePoint for customers Eliminates mistakes (loopback check, PDF iFilter) Tasks with no GUI E.g. multi-tenant administration Go beyond original programming User profiles magic

10. Basic cmdlets Get-Command Get-HelpGet-SPSite Write-Host „Hello World!”

11. Pipeline * Get-SPList is a customfunction

12. BASIC SHarePoint magic DEMO

13. Thetools SharePoint 2010 Management Shell PS & stsadm & SP stuff PS Script Editor Quest PowerGUI THE tool Debugging, Formatting,Intellisense FREE Downloadnow! !!!

14. Output

15. PS: Hello World, PowerGUI, Output, Functions DEMO

16. Usecase: SP Installation Produces a „clean”, controllable install Repeatable Ideal for Testing, QA, Dev

17. Use case: SP Installation (2) „Simple” scripts SP 2010 Unleashed installhttp://tinyurl.com/SPFarm-Config Installs farm and most service apps Advanced: AutoSPInstaller Completly automated Installs SP and farm

18. FARM Installation DEMO

19. Eliminate repetetive tasks How many times have you done this? Disabled loopback check? Configured PDF: Icon, iFilter, Crawl How many times you made mistakes Solution: Automate PDF configuration for SharePoint 2010 via PowerShell Check autoSPinstall for more details

20. CONFIGURING PDF STUFF DEMO

21. Use case: Hej SharePoint! Apply language settings to all sites in a site collection DK SE EN DK SE DK SE

22. Multilingual sites DEMO

23. Solution installationSite warm-up Demo

24. Use profiles story OOTB: Cannot map all the properties (binary, manager) PowerShell More flexible Automate via scheduled tasks

25. USER PROFILES Demo

26. Automate site provisioning Much easier to control Automate completly Configure additional properties (theme?, template,....)

27. Site provisioning DEMO

28. Extending PowerShell This is .NET Easy to extend with OOTB SharePoint API Use case: Configure versioning settingsfor all lists

29. Beyond original programmingList versioning DEMO

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