Singapore,

2015

PowerShell in SharePoint
2013 - a Powerful
Management Tool
Gayathri Narayanan, Lead Consultant, NCS Pte Ltd
Platinum
Sponsors

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PowerShell and SharePoint 2013

High level overview of PowerShell
Permissions and PowerShell

Understanding SharePoint Search Service Application

PowerShells Search Service Application (SSA)
Creating and Modifying the Search topology

Content Management
Managing content databases
Managing database site collections

Memory and Disposal

Agenda

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PowerShell and SharePoint 2013

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High level overview of PowerShell

Interactive task-based command line shell for

Microsoft products (Windows, SharePoint, SQL Server,
etc.)
Replaces deprecated STSADM SharePoint tool
Used to automate and schedule routine system tasks
Cmdlets are simple single-function command-line
commands
Name format is verb-noun separated by a dash: GetHelp
Cmdlet performs specific task Get retrieves object

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Permissions and PowerShell

Open PowerShell as Administrator

If using Windows PowerShell Console, must register SharePoint
snap-in using Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
Account used to install SharePoint granted PowerShell Admin
rights. Use Add-SPShellAdmin to grant to other users
Requires securityadminfixed server roleon SQL Server Instance
Requires db_ownerfixed database roleon all databases updating
Requires you be a member of the Administrators group on server
running PowerShell commands

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Understanding SharePoint SSA

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SharePoint Search Architecture

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Creating Search Service Application

Out of the box Vs PowerShell

Out of the
Box

PowerShell

A Clean Database
Name

No

Yes

Index Location

No

Yes

Modify Topology

No

Yes

Multiple Server SSA

No

Yes

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PowerShells Search Service

Application

Expedites the creation of Search service application in

DR scenario
Allows you to specify components of Search service
Database Names
Application Pool
Proxy Server Name

Create script to reuse when building multiple instances

of a Search service application
Must use PowerShell to modify search topology

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Search Topology

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Managing Content Database

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Content DB Cmdlets

Get-SPContentDatabase
New-SPContentDatabase -Name SharePoint_Content_DB
-WebApplication SharePoint Demo
Set-SPContentDatabase http://SharePointDemo.com |
-Set-SPContentDatabase -MaxSiteCount 1
Dismount-SPContentDatabase
Mount-SPContentDatabase
Remove-SPContentDatabase
Test-SPContentDatabase

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Site Collection Cmdlets

Get-SPSite CBTN_Content_DB
Move-SPSite http://SharePointDemo.com/sites/demo
-DestinationDatabase SharePoint_Content_DB
New-SPSite http://SharePointDemo.com/sites/NewMVA
ContentDatabase SharePoint_Content_DB -Template
"STS#0"

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Memory and Disposal

SPSite and SPWeb consumes resources

PowerShell, in conjunction with the SharePoint object model, assists in the
disposal of expensive SharePoint objects.
Use SharePoint Management Shell, rather than the standard Windows
PowerShell which is a multi-threaded.
Get-SPWebApplication | Get-SPSite limit all | Foreach-Object { $._Url }
Windows PowerShell
Start-SPAssignment Global
$site = Get-SPSite "http://sp2013"
Foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {
Write-Host $web.Title
}
Stop-SPAssignment Global

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PowerShell and SharePoint 2013

Summary

High level overview of PowerShell

Permissions and PowerShell

Understanding SharePoint Search Service Application

PowerShells Search Service Application (SSA)
Creating and Modifying the Search topology

Content Management
Managing content databases
Managing database site collections

Memory and Disposal

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2015

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