SharePoint 101 B. PowerShell A SharePoint Admin's Best Friend

PowerShell helps you automate your deployment and monitoring processes.

PowerShell Basics

• Windows PowerShell
  • Basic PowerShell profile
  • Activate Developer Dashboard (caveat AJAX requests)
• PowerShell's standard conventions
  • Approved verbs
  • Development guidelines
• PowerGUI / PowerShell ISE for development

References:

• Technet: Using Windows PowerShell
• Technet Script Center

SharePoint Management Shell

• Location of the SharePoint PowerShell profile
• Granting SharePoint PowerShell Admin Permissions
  • Add-SPShellAdmin -UserName domain\user -Database (Get-SPContentDatabase -WebApplication http://webappurl)
  • Set-ExecutionPolicy (about_Execution_Policy)
• Exercises:
  • Create a new site collection using a specific template
  • List all sites in the farm

References:

• Technet: Use Windows PowerShell to administer SharePoint 2013
• Technet: Index of all SharePoint 2013 cmdlets - Alternate index
• Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 learning roadmap

Advanced tips

• Tokenize your PowerShell scripts to make them portable across environments
• Use AutoSPInstaller to setup new SharePoint environments automatically
• Install Gary Lapointe's cmdlets because they are awesome and he is the man