Automating SharePoint 2010 administration tasks with PowerShell

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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Contents

The problem
A SharePoint farm:

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

In 2007
Stsadm
Automation

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

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…

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

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

Pipeline
* Get-SPList is a customfunction

BASIC SHarePoint magic
DEMO

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

Output

PS: Hello World, PowerGUI, Output, Functions
DEMO

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

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

FARM Installation
DEMO

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

CONFIGURING PDF STUFF
DEMO

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

Multilingual sites
DEMO

Solution installationSite warm-up
Demo

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

USER PROFILES
Demo

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

Site provisioning
DEMO

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

Beyond original programmingList versioning
DEMO

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