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Timer Job and Log Information
Microsoft PowerShell allows the retrieval and management of SharePoint log information as well as the status of timer jobs. In this video; David Dye uses PowerShell cmndlets to Get an identified timer job and call and format parameterized data from it; before using the Get-SPLogEvent cmndlet to filter and list category-level log data.
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Upgrade Content Database
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint allow administrators to use PowerShell to upgrade content databases across a site. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to test whether content databases can be upgraded; list the content databases on a site; and upgrade the content databases once all issues have been cleared.
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Upgrade Status
Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets allow you to verify the upgrade status of the different objects within a SharePoint farm by providing details about the status of each upgrade session. In this video; David Dye uses the Get-SPFarm cmdlet to return a SharePoint local farm; before demonstrating how to extract the upgrade information and pipe it to an external file.
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Working with Services
In Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint; a number of services are exposed in the Windows Operating System allowing you to interact with them. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to query the status of the service; stop; start; and change the service start-up mode.
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Site Features
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint allow administrators to view; activate; and deactivate site features using PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create a script using the Get-SPFeature cmdlet to view the features of a particular site; and filter and sort results. He then activates and deactivates a feature using Enable and Disable.
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SP Health Analysis Rule
Microsoft PowerShell provides health monitoring cmdlets that allow you to manage health analyzer rules that are used by SharePoint Health Analyzer to monitor the farm. In this video; David Dye uses the Get-SPHealthAnalysisRule cmdlet to retrieve a specific health analysis rule before using cmdlets to disable and then re-enable the rule.
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SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig
In Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint; you can query and configure Security Tokens. In this video; David Dye demonstrates which commandlets to use when querying a Security Token and how to configure a Security Token.
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SPShellAdmin
You can use PowerShell to add and remove Shell administrators for any SharePoint database. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to add; remove; and query the Shell Administrators.
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SPSite Information
Microsoft SharePoint's SPSite object allows the farm administrator to extract; configure; and manage site collection data. In this video; David Dye uses the SPSite cmndlet to demonstrate multiple ways to manage site collection and SPWeb data by piping information between cmndlets.
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SPSiteAdministration
Microsoft SharePoint allows farm administrators to view information about site collections using the Get-SPSiteAdministration cmdlet in PowerShell and return different information based on specified parameters. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to return information about all site collections; write the information to a text file; refine the query; and determine disk space usage; in each case utilizing Get-SPSiteAdministration.
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SPUser
Microsoft SharePoint's SPUser object allows the configuration of SPWeb security within site collections. In this video; David Dye uses PowerShell cmndlets to demonstrate how to create and add users to existing roles within a site collection subsite or SPWeb.
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SPWeb Information
Microsoft SharePoint's SPWeb object allows the creation and configuration of subsites and the querying of their data. In this video; David Dye uses the SharePoint interface and PowerShell cmndlets; parameters; and methods to create; query; and edit SPWebs.
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Start and Stop SP Service
The service application cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell allow you to start; stop; and manage service applications across farms in SharePoint. In this video; David Dye uses the Get-ServiceInstance cmdlet to return the status of a specific service instance on a particular server; before demonstrating how to start and stop the service instance from within PowerShell.
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Save Site as a Site Template
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint allow administrators to specify and save a web as a template. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create a PowerShell script to create; name; describe; and save a web as a template; which can be used repeatedly throughout a SharePoint farm.
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Search Service Crawl Content Source
Microsoft PowerShell provides administrators with the ability to create; configure; and remove content sources within a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to retrieve Search Service information to find available content sources; and ensure that content sources will be crawled to make search results available to the Search Service.
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Search Service Crawl Rules
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide administrators with the ability to work with crawl rules in a Search Service application. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use PowerShell to create a script that uses cmdlets to configure; create; and remove crawl rules consistently across multiple SharePoint farms. This avoids potential errors when using Central Administration to configure each farm.
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Search Service File Types
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide farm administrators with the ability to enable or disable various file types within the Search Service provider application in a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to retrieve information on available file types; disable a file type; and then enable that file type using PowerShell cmdlets.
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SharePoint Designer Settings
Microsoft PowerShell provides cmdlets that allow you to configure Microsoft SharePoint Designer settings within a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use the allowDesigner property in PowerShell to enable and disable the use of SharePoint Designer in a web application; as well as how to configure the site collection administrators SharePoint Designer capabilities.
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SharePoint Product Info
Microsoft SharePoint allows you to easily return information about your SharePoint-related product components using cmdlets in PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use the Get-SPProduct cmdlet and its Local parameter to display SharePoint products installed on a local server; as well as how to retrieve additional detailed information and pipe the information to a text file.
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Access Service App
Microsoft PowerShell provides cmdlets that allow you to easily manage Access Service applications that run in a SharePoint site collection. In this video; David Dye uses the Get-AccessServiceApplication cmdlet to return an Access Service application; before demonstrating how to specify the maximum duration to perform an operation; and how to create a new instance of an Access Service application.
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Add a Site Column
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide farm administrators with the ability to add a custom site column across multiple sites in multiple SharePoint farms using PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create and configure a site column at the root of the site collection using variables to maintain the identical configuration across multiple site collections and farms.
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Add Sandbox Solution
You can use Microsoft PowerShell to deploy; configure; and manage Sandbox Solutions for SharePoint’s site collection. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to utilize PowerShell to work with Sandbox Solutions.
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Add Server Solution
You can add a server solution to SharePoint using Microsoft PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to add; deploy; remove; and disable the server solution using PowerShell cmdlets.
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Alternate Access Map
Microsoft SharePoints allows the use of PowerShell cmndlets to create; configure; and remove Alternate Access Mapping within a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates a list of all available Alternate Access Maps; filters URLs for specific Web Applications; and creates and removes a new alternate URL.
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Antivirus
In Microsoft PowerShell; you can use cmdlets to create scripts that allow you to configure antivirus settings consistently across your SharePoint environment. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to assign antivirus settings to a service using the AllowDownload property; and uses the DownloadScanEnabled and UploadScanEnabled properties to determine whether files are scanned when they are transferred.
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Backing Up
You can use Microsoft PowerShell to backup SharePoint. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use PowerShell along with the Task Scheduler to schedule and automate the backing up of SharePoint files; as well as view the history of the backups.
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Blocked File Extensions
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to create commands that let you query; configure; and remove blocked file extensions consistently across multiple SharePoint servers. In this video; David Dye uses the BlockedFileExtensions property to retrieve a list of file extensions that are blocked from sites in a web application; before demonstrating how to add and remove blocked file extensions.
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Configuration Database
You can use Microsoft PowerShell to create and execute various actions associated with Configuration Databases. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create a Configuration Database; work with it; and also how to remove a Configuration Database.
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Configure Outgoing E-mail
Microsoft SharePoint allows the use of PowerShell cmndlets to programmatically configure a SharePoint farm's Outgoing E-Mail Settings. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create a variable object containing SharePoint's global administration settings; and uses the PowerShell UpdateMailSettings parameter and arguments to change the farm's Outgoing E-Mail Settings.
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Configure Usage and Data Collection
Microsoft SharePoint allows the configuration; management; and maintenance of Usage and Data collection by PowerShell cmndlets. In this video; David Dye uses PowerShell cmndlets to removes the current SharePoint SPUsageApplication; creates a new one to collect usage information from the server; defines a database; and configures and confirms the new SPUsageApplication's identity.
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Configuring Sharepoint
You can use Microsoft PowerShell to configure SharePoint after the initial installation. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to configure SharePoint along with the different server roles and service applications.
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Content Database
You can use Microsoft SharePoint to create a new Content Database; but you can do the same thing programmatically using the Microsoft PowerShell Management Shell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create and remove a Content database in Microsoft PowerShell.
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Content Types
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide farm administrators with the ability to manage; query; and create custom content types using PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to retrieve a list of content types within a site collection and programmatically create a custom content type using PowerShell.
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Copying a Site
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to use existing site collections as templates for creating new site collections within SharePoint. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to create a new site collection based on an existing one by using a PowerShell commandlet.
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Create New Site Collection with Explicit Content Database
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to programatically create a SharePoint 2013 content database capable of holding a site collection. In this video; David Dye uses PowerShell cmndlets to create and configure a new site collection and explicitly define a new SPContentDatabase associated with the default Web App.
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Create Web Application
In Microsoft PowerShell; you can create and configure a web application for SharePoint. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use various cmdlets to configure and query the configuration of a SharePoint application.
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Deleted Sites
Once a site collection has been deleted; Microsoft SharePoint allows you to use site management cmdlets within PowerShell to display a list of deleted site collections and either restore them or permanently delete them from the farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use the Get-DeletedSite; Restore-DeletedSite; and Remove-DeletedSite cmdlets to query; restore; and remove deleted site collections.
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Developer Dashboard
The Developer Dashboard within Microsoft SharePoint provides information you can use to locate the cause of any of the running problems with your application. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to turn on; run; and turn off Developer Dashboard.
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Diagnostic Logging
The logging cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell allow you to configure diagnostic settings consistently across the entire SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to specify where the log files will reside and restrict disk space usage for log files using the Set-SPDiagnosticConfig cmdlet and its parameters; before using the Set-SPLogLevel cmdlet to set the trace logging level.
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Enable Remoting
Microsoft SharePoint allows you to configure servers from within PowerShell to receive remote commands that affect the SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to enable remoting using the Enable-PSRemoting cmdlet and enable the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) from within a PowerShell session before remoting in from a different server and adding a SharePoint snap-in.
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Export Lists
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint enable administrators to use a PowerShell script to export a site collection list to a flat file. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to set variables for the URL; list name; and path; and how to use the TryGetList and Export-Csv methods to export a comma-delimited file.
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Farm Admins
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to have multiple Farm Administrators with varying administrative permissions. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to add and configure Farm Administrators within a SharePoint Farm; using the farmAdministrators variable.
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General Commands
In Microsoft SharePoint; the general commands available from within PowerShell allow you to perform a variety of tasks that include the assignment of variables and the configuration of settings within the SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye uses general commands in PowerShell to enable the Customer Experience Improvement Program; configure Bing Maps; and assign variables.
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Import and Export Sites
Microsoft PowerShell can be used to import and export site collections. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to export site collections into a CMP file and how to import a site collection using PowerShell.
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InfoPath Forms Service
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide administrators with the ability to query the InfoPath Forms Service configuration within a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to use PowerShell to configure all SharePoint environments identically. He then retrieves information on form templates; using the PowerShell Get cmdlet; and enables and disables specific templates.
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Managed Accounts
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to easily manage your existing Managed Accounts. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to query and add Managed Accounts; as well as how to remove and configure existing Managed Accounts.
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Managed Paths
Microsoft PowerShell allows you to add and configure Managed Paths for applications. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to add; configure; and remove a Managed Path in SharePoint. He also demonstrates how to query a managed path and Host Header Information using PowerShell.
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Managing User Licenses
Microsoft PowerShell provides cmdlets that allow you to manage supported SharePoint user licenses in the SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye uses the Get-SPUserLicense cmdlet to return a list of SharePoint licenses; before demonstrating how to create a new license mapping object and enable user-license enforcement from within PowerShell.
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PowerShell Variables
You can create and utilize variables within the different cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell within SharePoint. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to declare and initialize PowerShell variables.
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Querying
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint allow administrators to retrieve property information from an object using PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to query properties using a Select statement within a PowerShell cmdlet; pipe variables; objects or Get statements to a Select statement; and pipe the results to a Sort.
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Recovering Data From an Unattached Content Database
Microsoft PowerShell provides database cmdlets that allow you to easily recover content from an unattached content database in a SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye uses the Dismount-SPContentDatabase cmdlet to detach a content database from its web application; before demonstrating how to use the ConnectAsUnattachedDatabase parameter with the Get-SPContentDatabase cmdlet to return a specific unattached database in the farm.
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Resource Measures
In Microsoft PowerShell; you can configure your SharePoint resource measures to reduce the resources used in a solution; limiting any weakening of the farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to configure your resource measures; using spcode variables and resource measures.
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Restore
You can use Microsoft PowerShell to restore all or some parts of the SharePoint farm. In this video; David Dye demonstrates the various levels of granularity at which SharePoint can be restored using PowerShell’s backup history.
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Retrieve Information About Content Database
In Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint; the SharePoint Management Shell can be used to retrieve various kinds of Content Database information. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to retrieve information on a Content Database using PowerShell and pipe the information results.
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Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint: Managing Sites
Day-to-day SharePoint management entails a lot of site management and server remediation. This course covers general SharePoint administration, server diagnostics, security and search, and managing and maintaining sites all using the PowerShell scriptable command line interface.
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- use cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell to enable remoting into a SharePoint farm
- use cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell to return SharePoint-related product information
- use site management cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell to query, restore, and permanently remove deleted site collections in the SharePoint farm
- return information about SharePoint site collections utilizing the Get-SPSiteAdministration cmdlet in PowerShell
- assign variables and configure settings within the SharePoint farm using some of the general commands in PowerShell
- use cmdlets in PowerShell to manage Access Service applications in a SharePoint site collection
- configure SharePoint Designer settings within a SharePoint farm using cmdlets in PowerShell
- manage SharePoint user licenses using cmdlets in Microsoft PowerShell
- stop and start service instances in SharePoint using the service application cmdlets from within PowerShell
- use health monitoring cmdlets in PowerShell to manage SharePoint Health Analyzer rules
- configure diagnostic logging across a SharePoint farm using cmdlets in PowerShell
- retrieve information from an unattached content database in a SharePoint farm utilizing PowerShell cmdlets
- manage SharePoint web application blocked files extensions from within PowerShell
- configure antivirus settings within Microsoft SharePoint utilizing PowerShell
- query the upgrade status of objects within a SharePoint farm utilizing PowerShell
- work with InfoPath Forms Service templates in a SharePoint farm using Microsoft PowerShell
- work with content sources in a SharePoint farm using Microsoft PowerShell
- work with crawl rules in Microsoft PowerShell to ensure identical configurations across SharePoint farms
- use Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets to enable and disable file types in searches across SharePoint farms
- define a custom site column in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- work with lists in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- work with content types in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- work with the Recycle Bin in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- save a web as a template in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- work with alerts on site collection lists in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- export a list to a flat file in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- work with features at server and site collection level in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- upgrade content databases in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- query object properties in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- use Microsoft PowerShell within SharePoint to create a new site collection by copying an existing one
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Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint: Getting Started
PowerShell can be used for all day-to-day management tasks in SharePoint. This course covers backup and recovery of SharePoint, working with PowerShell command line, configuring sites and services, and site administration.
- start the course
- create and automate a SharePoint backup using Microsoft PowerShell and Task Scheduler
- restore all, or part of, the SharePoint farm using PowerShell
- use Microsoft PowerShell to configure SharePoint
- create and remove a web application for SharePoint using Microsoft PowerShell
- create and configure objects in Microsoft PowerShell and apply that to SharePoint
- pipe within PowerShell and take the results and move them over to another cmdlet
- find and control Microsoft SharePoint services using PowerShell
- work with server solutions in Microsoft SharePoint and PowerShell
- deploy, update, and remove Sandbox Solutions using Microsoft PowerShell
- work with single or multiple Features in Microsoft SharePoint and PowerShell
- create, work with, and remove a Configuration Database in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- create a new Content Database and remove an existing Content Database using Microsoft PowerShell
- retrieve information on a Content Database in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- import and export site collections in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- add, remove, and query Shell Administrators in PowerShell
- query, add, remove, and configure existing Managed Accounts using Microsoft PowerShell
- create and configure a Managed Path and query Host Header Information in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- query and configure Security Tokens in Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint
- add SPUsers and configure their roles in a SharePoint collection's subsite or SPWeb using PowerShell cmdlets
- create, query, and configure a SharePoint SPWeb and its data using PowerShell cmdlets, parameters, and methods
- extract, configure, and manage SharePoint site collection data using SharePoint's Management Shell
- load SharePoint assemblies to make it possible to work with SharePoint directly from within PowerShell
- programmatically create a SharePoint 2013 content database capable of holding a site collection
- use PowerShell cmdlets to retrieve, query, and manage SharePoint timer jobs and log information
- use PowerShell cmdlets to remove, create, and configure SharePoint 2013's Usage and Data Collection application
- use PowerShell cmdlets to programmatically configure a SharePoint farm's outgoing e-mail settings
- use PowerShell cmdlets to create, configure, and remove Alternate Access Mapping within a SharePoint farm
- turn on, run, and turn off Developer Dashboard within Microsoft SharePoint
- configure your resource measures and output these measures to a text file using Microsoft PowerShell within SharePoint
- add and configure Farm Administrators within a SharePoint Farm, using Microsoft PowerShell
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Alerts
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint allow administrators to retrieve information on; create; and remove alerts associated with a site collection list. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to set variables and use a foreach loop to iterate through alerts on a specific list; and how to change the properties of an existing alert.
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Piping
You can pipe your results within a PowerShell cmdlet specifically for a SharePoint object. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to take the results from one cmdlet and pass it to another cmdlet; and then work with the result; or result set; within different cmdlets in a single query.
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Features
In Microsoft SharePoint and PowerShell; you can create custom Features on the SharePoint site. In this video; David Dye demonstrates where to find the Features folder in the Microsoft SharePoint backend; and how to install; remove; enable; and disable a single Feature; as well as how to enable multiple features in a subsite.
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Lists
Microsoft PowerShell and SharePoint provide SharePoint farm administrators with the ability to work with lists and list items directly within PowerShell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to set variables to retrieve lists and list items from a specific site collection by title and id and format them as a table.
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Working with PowerShell
Microsoft Windows PowerShell; compatible with SharePoint's syntax and object model; lacks the SharePoint objects; namespaces and assemblies loaded into the SharePoint Management Shell. In this video; David Dye demonstrates how to work with SharePoint directly from within Windows PowerShell after loading the required SharePoint assemblies.
