PowerShell & SharePoint - Quick Start

SharePoint and PowerShell are a perfect match. Here's the PowerShell profile I'm using on my Sharepoint Dev. Boxes.

If you haven't a PowerShell profile yet, create it:

• >new-item -type file $profile -force
• >notepad $profile
• Paste in the following snippet or download:

$12HivesDir = "${env:CommonProgramFiles}\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\"

#load Microsoft.SharePoint.dll

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("$12HivesDir\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.dll")

#returns the SPSite at the specified URL

function get-spsite ([String]$webUrl=$(throw 'Parameter -webUrl is missing!'))

{

   return New-Object -TypeName "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite" -ArgumentList "$webUrl";

}

#returns the SPSite object from the specified URL

function get-spweb ([String]$webUrl=$(throw 'Parameter -webUrl is missing!'))

{

   $site =  New-Object -TypeName "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite" -ArgumentList "$webUrl";

   return $site.OpenWeb();

}

#returns the SPList object from the specified URL and List name

function get-splist ([String]$webUrl=$(throw 'Parameter -webUrl is missing!'),

[String]$listName=$(throw 'Parameter -listName is missing!'))

{

   $site =  New-Object -TypeName "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite" -ArgumentList "$webUrl";

   $web = $site.OpenWeb();

   return $web.Lists[$listName]

}

• Save

• >set-executionpolicy -executionPolicy remoteSigned

• Reopen the PowerShell 

Now you have. Use it:

• >$web = get-spweb http://localhost
• >$web.Title = "Greetings from the Powershell"
• >$web.Update()
• Browse to http://localhost and see what's happen.

I've teamed up with Eric Kraus from Microsoft. You can find our joint project for PowerShell 2.0 called SPoshMod on CodePlex. Hope the first release will be availiable soon...